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One of the top comments in the video: > If this guy goes for a big tech interview they're still going to ask him how to invert a binary tree The industry's hiring process is so messed up that this is completely believable. "We've decided to prioritize other candidates, as you are strong in the fundamentals but lack the kind of experience in Vue that we're looking for."
One of the top comments in the video: > If this guy goes for a big tech interview they're still going to ask him how to invert a binary tree The industry's hiring process is so messed up that this is completely believable. "We've decided to prioritize other candidates, as you are strong in the fundamentals but lack the kind of experience in Vue that we're looking for."
Has anybody ever figured out what "invert a binary tree" means? That came from Max Howell, and nobody else seems to have ever received that question. The best anyone can figure out is that it's reversing the left and right branches, which seems like it's ten lines of code, at most?
One of the top comments in the video: > If this guy goes for a big tech interview they're still going to ask him how to invert a binary tree The industry's hiring process is so messed up that this is completely believable. "We've decided to prioritize other candidates, as you are strong in the fundamentals but lack the kind of experience in Vue that we're looking for."
> "We've decided to prioritize other candidates, as you are strong in the fundamentals but lack the kind of experience in Vue that we're looking for." I have a nuanced view of your particular example. I've been in this industry for almost 30 years. I cut my teeth writing C/C++, had an interest in language theory and frameworks and was brought up to care about portability. I always wanted to be able to easily transiti…
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Doom is Turing complete ( https://calabi-yau.space/blog/doom.html ), so it's just a matter of building the appropriate map.
(author here) _yes I realize how ridiculous what I'm about to say is considering the project I just shared_ but I actually strongly disagree, haahah. there's this thing I learned of called "the turing tarpit". my position is that just because something could theoretically be done with infinite time and infinite resources, doesn't mean you can even approach the throne of doing it for real in a human lifetime. And if I…
I might use lesson you provided in my future to actually achieve something. I just need to doubt the feasibility of even the last step.
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Would he have made it past your recruiter screen though?
A lot of people who have a gap between jobs for 1-2 years because they worked on their insane projects certainly wouldn't.
Really amazing stuff, and impressive dedication. To the author: if you would like to work on challenges of similar caliber, ping me (I'm Syrus, from Wasmer)
One of the top comments in the video: > If this guy goes for a big tech interview they're still going to ask him how to invert a binary tree The industry's hiring process is so messed up that this is completely believable. "We've decided to prioritize other candidates, as you are strong in the fundamentals but lack the kind of experience in Vue that we're looking for."
Has anybody ever figured out what "invert a binary tree" means? That came from Max Howell, and nobody else seems to have ever received that question. The best anyone can figure out is that it's reversing the left and right branches, which seems like it's ten lines of code, at most?
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By now there is more than one story how some open source developer wasn't hired because their skills with the project they created was not sufficient for the job.
I go back and forth on my opinion for this one. You wouldn’t necessarily want a mechanic or engineer to drive a race car, for example.
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Has anybody ever figured out what "invert a binary tree" means? That came from Max Howell, and nobody else seems to have ever received that question. The best anyone can figure out is that it's reversing the left and right branches, which seems like it's ten lines of code, at most?
Maybe the catch was in saying that left right labels are arbitrary, could be called node1 and node2 as well, inverting is not necessary per se, just visit it in node2, node1 order if needs to be flipped - ie. no physical rearrangement is necessary.
In a pure ASCII world, this doubles as "how do you reverse a string". In a Unicode world, the answer to "how do you reverse a string" is "you should never want to do that".
One of the top comments in the video: > If this guy goes for a big tech interview they're still going to ask him how to invert a binary tree The industry's hiring process is so messed up that this is completely believable. "We've decided to prioritize other candidates, as you are strong in the fundamentals but lack the kind of experience in Vue that we're looking for."
So that's not interesting to me at all as a person hiring engineers.
What I want to know is "how have you solved bigger design problems" or "what's your approach to keeping code maintainable and reducing cost of ownership"
I've also hired people who 3 other managers have passed on and those people have gone on to amazing things at the company in which I work.
So the process is horribly broken... it doesn't successfully weed out anyone, and we've also hired really toxic individuals also with the same processes.