> It's bizarre to me how many people are missing this.
Very much this. I am too tired right now to engage with other responders, but thank you for articulating precisely the point I want to make.
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Very much this. I am too tired right now to engage with other responders, but thank you for articulating precisely the point I want to make.
No. He is simply saying the current interview only focuses on LC above all else. And should focus on soft skills as well among other things. You took his argument and flipped it 180 and went to the other extreme end. It's false dichotomy.
Why can't you use Dropbox or Google Drive to sync? Seems fairly easy.
They irony of this is that for one with a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
The real problem is that programmers have spent far too much time worrying about efficiency in the wrong places and at the wrong times; premature optimization is the root of all evil (or at least most of it) in programming. Donald Knuth.
Knowing when to apply something is just as important as know where
I think there are two types of programmers. Ones that are like you that like algorithms for algorithms sake. And the other that like to solve real world problems. I got into software development because I want to solve problems for people. And not all of us likes algo. We prefer to learn stuff that we do use day to day because that has direct impact. For example, I just spent two months understanding functional programming. I use it in my code almost everyday, but it would be worthless in an interview where you are judge by your algo understanding. It’s frustrating when you realize how this standard is forced on every technical role, on companies that don’t even need algo experts because they are too small.