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Reciting algorithms is reverse gatekeeping. If an employer wants to grill you on them, get out of there.

Are you saying it’s not important to know what a binary search is?

If I interview someone I don’t go deep into algorithms but I want to know that they know how about binary search or hashmaps. Ignorance of these shows ignorance of the basics of computation.

Doesn't GOOG go hard in the paint with those questions though?

Like he said. Get out of there.

Not just GOOG, but all of FAANGMULAetc... and smaller start ups as well. Robinhood asked me a dynamic programming leetcode question for their web engineer (front end) role and Bloomberg asked me a OOP design question (asked to code in Python, even though I do not have Python on my resume...interviewer was a Python developer) for a javascript role - both were 1st round phone screens.

The tech industry has normalized to the state of asking such question - its rare to be interviewed on domain expertise, unless you are interviewing at a fortune 500 big corp.

I’ve never been interviewed in any of these nonsense ways.

I’m sure it’s popular. But it’s not everywhere.

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