Of course perf is not my area of expertise. I like the stories, but...
When interviewing, I was interested in two things: ability to write code and an open mind. Does not matter, CS prof or not, I interviewed way before that. over 100 candidates while at Google.
See, if you ask whether they can write a regex to parse an arithmetic expression, the reactions vary. One just starts laughing (a Polish guy), another says: ok, can do it in Perl (is not it a good answer?). And you can definitely distinguish a clueless one.
My other question was about generating a stream of words. For many, the idea that your function produces an infinite number of results is totally stunning. They just can't grasp the idea. But of course they may slap together a web server which never ends (on its own). Just the general idea of going outside of the standard realm of programming stuns some.
But at Google most candidates did well. With some funny exceptions, mostly CCD ("can't code disease"). Coding is not for everyone.
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Date: 2024-10-19 06:25 pm (UTC)When interviewing, I was interested in two things: ability to write code and an open mind. Does not matter, CS prof or not, I interviewed way before that. over 100 candidates while at Google.
See, if you ask whether they can write a regex to parse an arithmetic expression, the reactions vary. One just starts laughing (a Polish guy), another says: ok, can do it in Perl (is not it a good answer?). And you can definitely distinguish a clueless one.
My other question was about generating a stream of words. For many, the idea that your function produces an infinite number of results is totally stunning. They just can't grasp the idea. But of course they may slap together a web server which never ends (on its own). Just the general idea of going outside of the standard realm of programming stuns some.
But at Google most candidates did well. With some funny exceptions, mostly CCD ("can't code disease"). Coding is not for everyone.