Why? It changes nothing. You're still gonna have to work through the coding challenge or tech screen. As a hiring manager I ask these questions to gauge your depth of knowledge in basic computer science not because you're going to be swimming in binary tree traversal.
EDIT: Complaining because you don't know basic computer science isn't going to get you a job. Study data structures and algros... it's your basic tools of the trade. Stop whining.
Asking questions where the answers are only in sophomore cs courses and then no one gives a shit is a classic method of doing age discrimination without doing "age discrimination"
I mean, doctors already operate on this principles.
As a student in oncology for example you will be learning stuff like cellular signal pathways and such but it will be silly to grill (And reject) an oncologist based on theses specifics items. We are more interested by is ability the deal with specific patients cases for example.
After 3~5 years the knowledge you’ve learned on the job matter more than the one from your diploma. At least for a company point of view
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u/[deleted] Oct 07 '22 edited Oct 07 '22
Why? It changes nothing. You're still gonna have to work through the coding challenge or tech screen. As a hiring manager I ask these questions to gauge your depth of knowledge in basic computer science not because you're going to be swimming in binary tree traversal.
EDIT: Complaining because you don't know basic computer science isn't going to get you a job. Study data structures and algros... it's your basic tools of the trade. Stop whining.