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ITT: a massive roll-call for sour grapes. P.S. Life would be easier if you just bit the bullet and finally learned those algorithms. It ain't that hard.

fallenatreus 7y ago
And still, develop poorly designed or executed software projects? Come on don't add your echo to the chamber of the nuisance of the IT industry which is causing a gatekeeping to brilliant talent from other fields. It's what actually causing a stale in innovation now. Anyone with sufficient study and grit can master those and come up with excellent implementations. Now what I will consider too stupid is if I ask someone to prove that "knowledge" to me in less than 1 hour. [Disclosure: I am learning and working on those algorithms on a pretty much daily basis, just from a perspective of broadening your thinking & logical skills during your learning curve (Why we need to learn Pythagoras theorem, if we are not going to ever use it?: https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=10154359309646005 https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=10154359309646005 ) they don't serve many purposes except developer's ego. Not to mention that there have been better implementations of these algorithms out there. And you can always pick and choose.]
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chrisseaton 7y ago
When I interviewed at Google I knew all the algorithms, and when I got rejected they said I should contribute to more open source projects to raise my profile instead.
codingslave 7y ago
This isnt the case, I work in quantitative finance in NYC. We occasionally interview engineers coming out of google. Often times their compensation does not match the level of engineering skill that they bring to the table. It's my belief that google is overpaying for the people they hire.
- duality 7y ago
  It's possible they're looking elsewhere for a reason. In other words, selection bias.
dang 7y ago
Personal attacks, which this is, will get you banned here. Would you please review the site guidelines and follow them when posting to HN? https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

fallenatreus 7y ago

And still, develop poorly designed or executed software projects? Come on don't add your echo to the chamber of the nuisance of the IT industry which is causing a gatekeeping to brilliant talent from other fields. It's what actually causing a stale in innovation now. Anyone with sufficient study and grit can master those and come up with excellent implementations. Now what I will consider too stupid is if I ask someone to prove that "knowledge" to me in less than 1 hour. [Disclosure: I am learning and working on those algorithms on a pretty much daily basis, just from a perspective of broadening your thinking & logical skills during your learning curve (Why we need to learn Pythagoras theorem, if we are not going to ever use it?: https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=10154359309646005 https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=10154359309646005 ) they don't serve many purposes except developer's ego. Not to mention that there have been better implementations of these algorithms out there. And you can always pick and choose.]

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chrisseaton 7y ago

When I interviewed at Google I knew all the algorithms, and when I got rejected they said I should contribute to more open source projects to raise my profile instead.

codingslave 7y ago

This isnt the case, I work in quantitative finance in NYC. We occasionally interview engineers coming out of google. Often times their compensation does not match the level of engineering skill that they bring to the table. It's my belief that google is overpaying for the people they hire.

duality 7y ago
It's possible they're looking elsewhere for a reason. In other words, selection bias.

dang 7y ago

Personal attacks, which this is, will get you banned here. Would you please review the site guidelines and follow them when posting to HN? https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html