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by alacombe 3027 days ago
"Pressure cooker situations" are different than being asked to be an expert in IGBT transformer, have state of the art metallurgy knowledges, and have the flexibility of an olympic gymnast... for a welder position.
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What questions are asked that are as divorced from being a software dev as olympic level flexibility is from being a welder? Or is this just a straw man argument?
Having a front end web developer/designer implement a b-tree from memory for example.
A b-tree or a binary tree? A b-tree doesn't even sound believable, unless there's other info you're not telling us.
I have been asked to write a matrix search robot (Ideal solution using A* algorithm) for a company that was doing CRUD education software apps, in which I was applying for a full stack position with plenty of experience building prod apps in their stack. I just looked them up and they shuttered about 12 months after the interview.
So what happened with the b-tree??