Timeline for Why interviewers ask algorithm questions even if job position doesn't require such knowledge?
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| Jan 19, 2018 at 4:29 | comment | added | Daniel | One very last and glaring point we all seem to miss. In any other industry, if you are asked to prove you can do something, it was already outlined in the job description(for the most part). So, either place needs to know algorithms in the job description OR must have CS degree. Testing someone on something that you did not ask for in a job description rings false when you leave out the elegant justification that kolossus gave. In laymans terms, its called being blind-sided. | |
| Jan 19, 2018 at 4:22 | comment | added | Daniel | @Neuromancer, I agree, because it's trendy. Just last year, tech companies had me develop small applications for them, now they all give me Codility and Hackerrank algorithms and send me on my way and no they do not ask me to explain my solutions. So I call bullocks on that one. They just look to see if I have 100%, no? ok, on to the next sorry bloke with a resume. | |
| Jan 15, 2018 at 12:42 | history | protected | Neo | ||
| Jan 14, 2018 at 17:19 | answer | added | Sascha | timeline score: 7 | |
| Jan 13, 2018 at 23:24 | comment | added | Neuromancer | @GlenPierce not really its more because its trendy | |
| Jan 13, 2018 at 23:17 | comment | added | Glen Pierce | Because it is required for the job. | |
| Jan 13, 2018 at 20:08 | answer | added | Vladimir Nabokov | timeline score: 0 | |
| May 24, 2015 at 11:46 | comment | added | Gaius | It's a test of how recently you were a CS undergrad. | |
| Jul 7, 2014 at 8:38 | comment | added | kevin cline | @Benjamin: There's plenty of room for gross inefficiency in client-side Javascript. I've seen it many times. If you meant "writing HTML and CSS", that's graphic design, not programming. | |
| Jun 16, 2014 at 10:17 | comment | added | Bmo | I'm weeping for the industry right now. | |
| Jun 15, 2014 at 3:18 | comment | added | DJClayworth | For many there's a simple answer: they do it because Google does it. | |
| Jun 15, 2014 at 0:02 | answer | added | Bernhard Barker | timeline score: 17 | |
| Jun 14, 2014 at 22:01 | comment | added | Benjamin Gruenbaum | Associative arrays aren't "knowing data structures", your wife didn't have to spend a minute thinking about the backing hash table or red black tree. That's the beauty of it :) | |
| Jun 14, 2014 at 22:00 | comment | added | corsiKa | @BenjaminGruenbaum What web development job doesn't require knowledge of algorithms and data structures? My wife runs a furniture store online, but when she wanted to make the tiniest changes to the store template templates she had to learn about associative arrays. Luckily she's pretty smart and it only took a few minutes, but she still had to know what was going on. | |
| Jun 14, 2014 at 21:32 | comment | added | Benjamin Gruenbaum | @kevincline most web development in standard website shops for example. | |
| Jun 14, 2014 at 19:28 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackWorkplace/status/477895306118324225 | ||
| Jun 14, 2014 at 16:24 | answer | added | kolossus | timeline score: 30 | |
| Jun 14, 2014 at 16:20 | comment | added | kevin cline | What sort of programming jobs don't require knowledge of algorithms and data structures? Without those basics all you can do is thoughtlessly copy data around. You can't even design a good data model. | |
| Jun 14, 2014 at 16:01 | answer | added | James Adam | timeline score: 6 | |
| Jun 14, 2014 at 15:57 | history | asked | user10125 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |