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Someone convince me that Big-O notation is useful anywhere outside of interviews. Because I don't believe it is.
Someone convince me that Big-O notation is useful anywhere outside of interviews. Because I don't believe it is.
There are also plenty of other sites, usually with a competitive edge, like HackerRank or TopCoder. Doing problems like these really is not a waste of time even if you're completely content with your job. While a lot of it may seem like algorithmic trivia, you'll internalize it sooner than you might expect, and then you'll start finding real-world uses for some of these tricks and, more generally, your "mental overload" when thinking through a piece of tricky code will gradually go down and down.
Re: interviewing frequently just for practice, that's great if you're in an area with an abundance of tech companies. I think that could be risky if you're in a city with just a few that you'd want to work at, though. You don't want to bomb an interview at the only other company in your city you'd want to work for just because you were rusty and used them for practice.
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I dress up a work, even going so far as to put on a tie some days. It has been mentioned by other engineers that they don't feel dressing up is the uniform of an engineer. But I say nuts to that, conformist. I dress up because I don't mind the look, I also like to draw a line between my private wardrobe and my professional one, it helps remind me I still work for "the man" and it drives me forward in the right direct…
I dress up because I look fabulous in a suit.
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I get his point and it's a solid plan in most fields. But for the tech jobs most people want, it's a really bad idea to put a suit on for a interview.
> But for the tech jobs most people want, it's a really bad idea to put a suit on for a interview. Why? Are you saying that some company will give you a hard time because you are wearing a suit ? That would certainly be humorous. Humorous as in "Haha, I have no intention to work in such a place, ever".
If you just want to keep up to date on interviewing skills, make a habit out of doing interview-style problems. I don't think you need to worry about wearing a suit or writing on a white board. Careercup is a fairly consistent source of interesting interview-style problems; I find myself perusing it sometimes even when I'm not remotely interested in another job, because a fair number of the problems are interesting i…
Someone convince me that Big-O notation is useful anywhere outside of interviews. Because I don't believe it is.
It's certainly useful when you find that someone accidentally made something n^5 instead of n and you need to explain to that person why they were very, very wrong.
Someone convince me that Big-O notation is useful anywhere outside of interviews. Because I don't believe it is.
Someone convince me that Big-O notation is useful anywhere outside of interviews. Because I don't believe it is.
The notation may not be valuable in itself, but the concept is very important.