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No more Blub for me, thank you, Vicar.
Chris Barrett wrote:Thanks guys.
She definitely tested my boundaries. My knowledge vs her Masters in CompSci was a very one sided battle.
On the plus hand, I didn't swear at her (which she hinted happened more than I would think).
Seriously, it was highly informative and I'm happy I did it.
Learned a bunch about the interview process, and the company, and it'll only make me better for the next interview.
Cheers!
Chris
Joanne
Chris Barrett wrote:while a Java coder would not be thinking past Collections.sort().
When you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything at all.
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Data Structures, Algorithms, Database Design, Operating Systems, and OOP are on top of my list.
When you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything at all.
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I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.
-- Gustave Flaubert, French realist novelist (1821-1880)
Sean Corfield wrote:...These days I expect developers (in my space - the web) to have some understanding of database design so that they can write at least vaguely reasonable SQL without driving my DBA to drink. As for OOP, I find that excessive OOP background makes it much harder for developers to learn FP - and we're a Clojure shop primarily - so I am wary of developers who've done Java-and-only-Java all their career (Java is pretty much the worst sort of OOP background when it comes to learning good FP practices, in my experience)...
No more Blub for me, thank you, Vicar.
E Erik Svensson wrote:I've actually seen bubble sort in production (and behaving poorly, no surprise).
No more Blub for me, thank you, Vicar.
chris webster wrote:
E Erik Svensson wrote:I've actually seen bubble sort in production (and behaving poorly, no surprise).
Wow. Did the programmer hand-code this sort, or did they manage to find a bubbleSort() method in an existing Collections library?
Campbell Ritchie wrote:Is random sort the same as bogosort?
chris webster wrote:I'm a grizzled old database application developer with limited Java, so for years my skills have seemed to be increasingly orthogonal to the mainstream job market. For years I struggled to find work because I'd spent too long in the Oracle eco-system, so my Java wasn't really good enough, and people were fixated on "generic" JEE-style approaches to building database applications.
chris webster wrote:As for Big O, I know what it describes, but I'd have to look up how to calculate it. And I haven't really studied algorithms anyway. Yet another gap in my education that I guess I'll have to fill via Coursera!
I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.
-- Gustave Flaubert, French realist novelist (1821-1880)
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