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by alexandercrohde·10y ago·view on hn ↗
Perhaps better named "How to win my coding interview."

Author goes into the specifics he personally expects from an interview. Since he's not positing these as universal standards (and rightly not) I'm not sure if this is relevant to anybody other than the people who intend to interview at dev mastery.

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Yeah and the whole thing is a loosely veiled attempt for him to generate subscribers to his email list. Not "winning."
Yes, I don't understand the suggestion for regexes as the correct and optimal way to detect palindromes. I hope this is not the expectation in general.
It is pretty ironic that palindromes cannot be recognised by regular languages.
Hah, yes. That's probably the simplest application of the pumping lemma I can think of.
> I don't understand the suggestion for regexes as the correct and optimal way to detect palindromes

That made me pause as well, but he actually doesn't say that. He says a "many will use RegEx as a part of the solution" - typically to strip whitespace and punctuation signs - something like /\W/.

If there is one thing that could possibly make tech recruiting even worse, it is this: "Did you review the study guide for our interviewing process?"

The problem is not that the job candidates are not sufficiently informed about the way specific employers conduct interviews. The problem is that employers have expectations regarding the tech jobs market that start at merely unrealistic and progress beyond a complete schizophrenic break with two extra hits of LSD.

We are not re-inventing the tech interview. We are, in the style of Thomas Edison searching for a better incandescent filament, discovering 10000 ways that are worse than the existing standard.

I subscribed to this man's newsletter (literally) because while I realize the skills I can pick up from him aren't going to translate 1:1 to other interviews and jobs, this article resonated with me and what I already know about software strongly enough that I can probably at least get to like 1:.95 or something in that ballpark.