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by matt3210 1407 days ago
Rejecting engineers for not having memorized all parameters of everything in a language is like rejecting a writer for not knowing every word in the dictionary
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I always got the impression the big companies reject people because their knowledge of data structures and algorithms was not good enough.
The big crufty enterprise tech cost center shops used to do the language/framework trivia style interviews. Many of them have since moved onto leetcode though.