Comment on Kids — You Don’t Need Anyone’s Permission To Learn To Program
lysdexic@programming.dev 6 months agoYou don’t need any of it, relevant experience is worth in the region of 5x-10x for every hiring manager I’ve known, and for myself.
The only time I had to brush up on data structures and algorithms is when I apply to job ads, and recruiters put up bullshit ladder-pulling trivia questions to pass to the next stage of a recruiting process. It’s astonishing how the usefulness of a whole body of knowledge is to feed gatekeepers with trivia questions.
killeronthecorner@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Absolutely. I generally find any kind of analogous coding tasks - leetcoder style or otherwise - to be a huge waste of time.
It tells you significantly less than a 30 minute conversation will. Someone who doesn’t know what they’re talking about will out themselves quickly when you get into the nitty gritty of the full software delivery lifecycle.