Unable to load image
House Vampire Founder
@RepentHarlequin's profile picture
RepentHarlequin tick/tock mrmee, mrmee, mrmee, mrmee.  2yr ago (reddit.com) 1,390 thread views #19976

Codecels seethe when asked to prove they actually know how to code

https://old.reddit.com/r/cscareerquestions/comments/qbgttt/does_anyone_else_find_it_toxic_when_developers?sort=controversial

https://old.reddit.com/r/cscareerquestions/comments/qbgttt/does_anyone_else_find_it_toxic_when_developers/hh9e63l/?sort=controversial

This is probably the most dramatic thread in particular but there's some great REEEEing throughout from bootcamp grads who can't write "Hello word" without importing a half-dozen Javascript libraries and copy-pasting something from StackOverflow

90
New Old Top Bottom Controversial Random
Jump in the discussion.

No email address required.

View entire discussion

Yeah, my friend who hires at a major media company tells me he gives candidates a simple problem to solve: given an input of n cents, break it down into as few coins as possible using quarters, dimes, nickels and pennies. So if the input is 56, simply print something like "2 quarters, 1 nickel,1 penny". And they can just explain the solution if they'd rather not code in front of him. He says that a literal, non-exaggerated 90% of candidates get completely stumped by this.

I've been teaching my pre-teen son to code as of about 10 months ago, just casual weekly sessions and assignments, and he solved this exact problem on his own with zero tips.

Yeah mate, I'm sure your preteen son knows how to do this, and it's not just you submitting a shitty greedy solution that doesn't actually work.

Jump in the discussion.

No email address required.

If you don’t reach for a greedy solution first, I’m just going to assume that you're a kitty.

Jump in the discussion.

No email address required.

But the greedy solution always works here. It obviously works for everything below quarters because the nominals are multiples of each other and if you don't use a quarter the only interesting alternative is three dimes, but then you could have used a quarter and a nickel.

Jump in the discussion.

No email address required.

Yeah greedy solution for the change making problem works fine (USD).

Jump in the discussion.

No email address required.

Yeah I suppose, but that question is never the one that's asked. It's always a list of coins with different denominations and some target sum.

Jump in the discussion.

No email address required.

shitty greedy solution

Imagine being enough of a sperg to try to optimize an interview problem.

Jump in the discussion.

No email address required.

Top Poster of the Day:
J
Current Registered Users: 25,651
sidebar image

BROWSE EFFORTPOSTS SITE GUIDE DIRECTORY Emojis & Art | Info Megathreads HOLES PING GROUPS

CURRENT EVENTS:

Find Rightoid Drama

500 mbux per post, no limit

/h/kappa Monthly Tournament

fighting vidya - Soku 12.3 | 10k+ prize pool | April 27th

Drama: any incident, scene, gaffe, rumor, opinion, or disagreement that is blown entirely out of proportion.

Do your part to keep our community healthy by blowing everything out of proportion and making literally everything as dramatic as possible.

Rules:

  1. Asking to see who saved comments/posts=1 day ban
  2. You must be 18 or older to view this site.
  3. NO RIGHTWING AGENDAPOSTING.
  4. Discord users will be banned on sight.
  5. Don't post anything illegal.
  6. No sexualizing minors, even as a joke. This includes cartoons.
  7. No doxxing.
  8. Using alts to game dramacoin will get you banned.
  9. Supporting free speech is an immediate ban.
  10. Absolutely NO anti-CCP sentiment.
  11. Absolutely NO homophobia, transphobia or furphobia.
  12. Absolutely NO misgendering.
  13. Absolutely NO antisemitism.
  14. Absolutely NO vaccine misinformation.
  15. You are encouraged to post drama you are involved in.
  16. You are encouraged to brigade in bad faith.
  17. You are encouraged to gaslight, to gatekeep, above all else, to girlboss.
  18. Participation implies enthusiastic consent to being mod abused by unstable alcoholic bullies.

Related subreddits:


𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐩 𝐰𝐨𝐳 𝐞𝐫𝐞

Live commit: 3ac5d19
Link copied to clipboard
Action successful!
Error, please refresh the page and try again.