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Understanding requirements means talking to customers. A customer can be anyone, even other devs that consume your code/product.
by turtlebits 1mo ago
Understanding requirements means talking to customers. A customer can be anyone, even other devs that consume your code/product.
- bdangubic 1mo ago“understanding requirements” is as much “wearing other hats” as having hands is “wearing other hats” for a carpenter. coding is always the hard part, always. whenever I was on any project and we had more work than resource we never hired “people to wear other hats” - we hired people to write code, that’s it. thats the fucking job. you ever see a leet-code-for-understanding-requirements? yea, me either…
- necovek 1mo agoYou actually do. All of those puzzle-style questions of the sort of "how many liters of water in Mediterranean" ask you to develop a solution with a vague requirement by leveraging what you know roughly to demonstrate you can specify requirements yourself (oh, Mediterranean is roughly 5000sqkm [-> I need surface area], on average 50m deep [-> I need average depth], this gives me A x B liters total) — I'd call these the leet-code version of requirement understanding/development. But really, any interview is really about giving you a requirement, and seeing _how_ you understand it, how you clarify it with your stakeholders (interviewers), and then how you address them.
- floweronthehill 1mo agoThese are called Fermi problems.
- bdangubic 1mo agoyup! And no SWE in the history of mankind that can code has lost an employment opportunity because of it.
- bdangubic 1mo agoURL please?
- necovek 1mo agoUhm, I wasn't under the impression this was Wikipedia: look for "FAANG interviews" at Google.com or Kagi.com or.... (I am not sure what part you want to challenge, so getting a better response is really hard — if it's all of it, I can't do better than above)
- bdangubic 1mo agoif those silly “puzzle questions” are important (they are not) they’d be a website where SWEs would be competing/hacking on etc - leetcode style. no one gives a flying fuck about that if you can code - no one
- Jach 1mo agoThanks for giving me a laugh, I was just imagining https://programming-motherfucker.com/ https://programming-motherfucker.com/ as an absurd "Hat-wearing, motherfucker" site instead.
- turtlebits 1mo agoCarpenters don't just nail things together and expect that to be a usable/useful product. If you can't/won't understand what you're supposed be doing, you're either useless or making useless shit.
- bdangubic 1mo agounderstanding is a given and not “wearing other hats” - there is just one hat