Gaming CS Interviews
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Gaming CS Interviews
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#2> Guidance is expected; a great interview should be more of a conversation than a one-sided question and one-sided answer.
I had a particularly awful interview at Google where the interviewer scoffed at me needing assistance.
And in an interview at Twitter with a xoogler they asked me what I knew about number theory and I said "nothing" and they said they majored in it and proceeded to ask me number theory questions. For a Django tooling position. He asked me how many prime numbers there were and I said "optimus prime" and he looked at me and asked if I was serious and if he should record my answer. I said yes followed by "autobots roll out"
Such a waste of my time to fly out there.
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#3So basic data structures and their Os, trees, proficiency with strings, sorting and recursion?
It doesnt feel like something really hard
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#4> Guidance is expected; a great interview should be more of a conversation than a one-sided question and one-sided answer. I had a particularly awful interview at Google where the interviewer scoffed at me needing assistance. And in an interview at Twitter with a xoogler they asked me what I knew about number theory and I said "nothing" and they said they majored in it and proceeded to ask me number theory questions.…
Google notoriously hire Megatron supporters. You should have known!
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#5> Strings are just arrays of characters, so any algorithms you learn for arrays also applies to strings.
I.e. don't believe the anti-American propaganda on Unicode.org.
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#6I was already halfway through the article when I realized I'd misunderstood the title: It's not about about using games to interview people (Factorio style), which still might have made sense to test self-taught engineers, but about how to game the interview process.
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#7If you're using an interview that bares 'little relevance to an employee’s day-to-day work' and that requires dedicated prep to pass, then what you're doing is optimising a process for finding people who will tick boxes and jump through meaningless hoops.
That's fine - some jobs do require that - but it does mean that any 'best and brightest' rhetoric should be shelved. Everyone knows that tech hiring is broken, but still the trumpets sound about how it really means something to get through one of these processes. It is almost a counter-signal.
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#8> a sorting algorithm may take O(n log(n)) runtime which is pretty common but be able to operate on an array in-place, only requiring O(n) storage.
If it's in-place the sorting might only require constant space and it can be O(1 ) [edit: in terms of space complexity]
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#9If you're using an interview that bares 'little relevance to an employee’s day-to-day work' and that requires dedicated prep to pass, then what you're doing is optimising a process for finding people who will tick boxes and jump through meaningless hoops. That's fine - some jobs do require that - but it does mean that any 'best and brightest' rhetoric should be shelved. Everyone knows that tech hiring is broken, but…
> If you're using an interview that bares 'little relevance to an employee’s day-to-day work' and that requires dedicated prep to pass, then what you're doing is optimising a process for finding people who will tick boxes and jump through meaningless hoops.
You mean all those jobs requiring college degrees? Or is that different somehow? The main reason is that difficult tests has positive signal even if they are partly irrelevant or tedious, and interview prep has nothing on 4 years spent full time, and on top of that you have to pay for college.
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#10> Strings are just arrays of characters, so any algorithms you learn for arrays also applies to strings. I.e. don't believe the anti-American propaganda on Unicode.org.
Every squiggle language transliterates to 7 bit ascii without loss of fidelity anyway. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯