I& #39;ve been a software engineer for 7 years, and the O(n) stuff has *literally never* come up in a significant way when talking about production code. Not even once.

And yet it comes up in 30% of interviews https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="😅" title="Smiling face with open mouth and cold sweat" aria-label="Emoji: Smiling face with open mouth and cold sweat">

I think I& #39;m just unlucky in this respect, but the 0% in 7 years? 7 entire years? That feels like signal.

Who are the lucky people that actually get to talk about algos during their day to day work? I want their job, it clearly easier to interview for than mine.

[venting, not rational]

Emotionally it feels like everyone is hiding all of the "good work" away from me, in an attempt to keep me out of tech. That& #39;s the only reason I could see why I specifically spend so much more time on knowledge backfill than most.

[venting, not rational]

At least 20 people read the first tweet, and (incorrectly) concluded that I have a problem with interviews

Completely neglecting to read down this last tweet, which I wrote while crying, where I say that my problem is with the work I& #39;m assigned

Social media... is bad.

Me "I& #39;m having an issue with interviews, please help I& #39;m struggling"

Dudes on this app "Lol algos are everywhere, stop bitching and go back to college"

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