Show HN: 15-question programming quiz with answers
Not entirely applicable to this particular quiz (most of the questions were relatively simple until the final few), but the interview questions like the ones that Hired and Triplebyte focus on honestly make me feel like an imposter.<p>I&#x27;ve been a software developer for over 4 years but I don&#x27;t have a formal CS education. I&#x27;ve gone through CLRS along with MIT&#x27;s open-courseware--but I rarely use any of that <i>directly</i> in the workplace and so have forgotten a lot of it. And I think I&#x27;m a pretty good software developer, yet in the past when I&#x27;ve tried to get into Hired or Triplebyte, I always leave feeling like I don&#x27;t belong in this profession because I can&#x27;t tell you the big-O complexity of DFS off the top of my head, much less write the algorithm on a scratch pad.<p>I&#x27;ve been doing technical interviews for a few weeks now (I was recently laid off) and I&#x27;m honestly just a little tired of the brain teasers and non-applicable algo questions--and more often than not, the interviewers flexing their &quot;knowledge&quot; muscles.<p>Case in point: I&#x27;m in final stages with multiple companies for a Rails position, yet only <i>one</i> of those had even mentioned Rails in the technical interviews--the others decided to quiz my CS knowledge and one of them even quizzed my FP knowledge (for a Ruby position…). I don&#x27;t understand it.