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0 pointsjohnnyanmac2y ago0 comments

I mean, at some point if they go through so much effort to hide their cheating they probably have attained some mastery in the process. Kinda like how some friends in high school would try and sneak in note cards on a test but they probably spent so much time prepping them that they coulda gotten an A or B regardless.

It's also why it's kinda annoying to do live interviewing trivia questions. Can I immediately answer what a partial template specialization is? Probably not, I never used them. Can I google it in 2 minutes and summarize it as as way for (often c++) template classes to bound some of the template arguments to values or pointers? Well, I just did. Should that cost me the interview? That's pretty much what I do on the job.

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throwaway20372y ago

I am a polyglot: Perl, Python, C, C++, Java, C#, etc. Not experts at all, but I can do fine with an existing code base. What is it about C++-heavy interviews that always regress to trivia? And asking about rarely used features? It is a bother. And rarely does the person asking the trivia have any depth whatsoever in other languages. It is my biggest gripe with "C++ people". For many, they have a hammer and everything looks like a nail. Yes, "Java enterprise people" were the same in 2005-ish.

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