Indeed, and seems like in code, the industry only cares about minimizing the false negatives, and it doesn't care about false positives: a developer can be amazing solving algorithmic questions, but, really a lousy team player or unable to work under pressure, etc.
My main pain point (and it hits close to home because well I also suck at algorithmic interviews under time pressure) is that some of the algorithms that are required, are actually very far away from the real work, or, as in your case, even if there is indeed a useful use case, it's usually pair-programmed or researched carefully over 2/3h or something.
And I'm 100% sure you would nail it while on the job. And you didn't get the chance because of almost some "gatekeeping" algorithmic questions, that honestly, just tend to get more and more disconnected from real workflows, especially with microservices, docker, CI/CD on the rise, the spectrum of tasks and scope of the day to day work becomes more intense in a very different direction. It just baffles me that we all as an industry can still NOT SEE this, in 2020.
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Indeed, and seems like in code, the industry only cares about minimizing the false negatives, and it doesn't care about false positives: a developer can be amazing solving algorithmic questions, but, really a lousy team player or unable to work under pressure, etc.
My main pain point (and it hits close to home because well I also suck at algorithmic interviews under time pressure) is that some of the algorithms that are required, are actually very far away from the real work, or, as in your case, even if there is indeed a useful use case, it's usually pair-programmed or researched carefully over 2/3h or something.
And I'm 100% sure you would nail it while on the job. And you didn't get the chance because of almost some "gatekeeping" algorithmic questions, that honestly, just tend to get more and more disconnected from real workflows, especially with microservices, docker, CI/CD on the rise, the spectrum of tasks and scope of the day to day work becomes more intense in a very different direction. It just baffles me that we all as an industry can still NOT SEE this, in 2020.