Coding Interview Preparation in JavaScript
So today I had to implement the XDomainRequest API to support IE9 for one of our features. Yesterday I worked on a branch to upgrade our front end framework to a newer version. The day before that I was refactoring out our old API from an older module. Last week I was working through a specification document from our product team to implement a new interface.<p>Where, in any of my day-to-day job duties, am I going to need to find the kth permutation of a set of numbers? or clone a directed graph? If someone presented me with these questions in an interview, I would be tempted to leave.<p>And in reflecting on my job as a coder, I find that most of the work I do is janitorial; clean this up, add support for this, fix this, talk with product about this, break this up into smaller pieces... Never once have I had to implement a feature that would require these types of algorithms. Like 98% of my challenges are &quot;this needs to work this way, but that needs to work that way, how can we make them work together?&quot;.<p>I&#x27;m not picking at educative.io per se, they&#x27;re just a symptom. It just really sucks that there are some companies out that believe that if you can rattle off an algorithm, then you must be a good coder.