| > And then there was the first time I read through the examples in Cracking the Coding Interview. It filled in a lot of gaps. 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 |
I think so too!