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by stuven
1679 days ago
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They don't teach time/space complexity in Bootcamps, true. I remember the first time I ran into O(1) vs O(n), I was building a toy Game of Life simulation and trying to lookup cells by finding them in an array. Took me a minute to realize I should use an object instead to index the cells! And then there was the first time I read through the examples in Cracking the Coding Interview. It filled in a lot of gaps. Nowadays I work on distributed systems that receive 100M requests/hr with other devs who similarly lack a college education but somehow manage Hope this helps you feel less frustrated next time you're paired with a colleague who has a different background than you do! |
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The issue is, the book approaches algorithms and data structure as something to "crack" and rote memorize instead of a new way of thinking. And it's easy to spot if you ask an interview question that looks a lot like one from the book but different enough that there's another data structure better suited for it.
> Nowadays I work on distributed systems that receive 100M requests/hr with other devs who similarly lack a college education but somehow manage
That's 12x what Stack Overflow does [0], so that's quite impressive!
> Hope this helps you feel less frustrated next time you're paired with a colleague who has a different background than you do!
Since your account is brand new, you might want to get familiar with the rules and guidelines of this community [1].
[0] https://nickcraver.com/blog/2016/02/17/stack-overflow-the-ar...
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html