Why I Don’t Talk to Google Recruiters
See his posts How We Interview Programmers [0] and Hacker-vs-Programmer [1] for more insight. It is ironic, then, that the author is claiming that algorithms, and knowledge of them, are unimportant for a programmer. &quot;There is no point in giving me binary-tree-traversing questions; I don&#x27;t know those answers and will never be interested in learning them.&quot; He believes he is a good programmer, and that learning algorithms is not necessary to qualify as a good programmer.<p>I think the claim is based on the idea that we now have tons of memory and disk, so programmers don&#x27;t need to worry about optimization. Which seems to have an obvious contradiction, which is that if you have huge quantities of memory and disk then ignorance of algorithms, and, e.g. O(n^2) causes shit-hitting-fan failures. Re: [2].<p>[0] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.yegor256.com&#x2F;2016&#x2F;03&#x2F;01&#x2F;how-we-interview-programmers.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.yegor256.com&#x2F;2016&#x2F;03&#x2F;01&#x2F;how-we-interview-programm...</a><p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.yegor256.com&#x2F;2014&#x2F;10&#x2F;26&#x2F;hacker-vs-programmer-mentality.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.yegor256.com&#x2F;2014&#x2F;10&#x2F;26&#x2F;hacker-vs-programmer-ment...</a><p>[2] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;accidentallyquadratic.tumblr.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;accidentallyquadratic.tumblr.com&#x2F;</a><p>Edit: added the quote.