I'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 😅
I think I'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'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'm assigned

Social media... is bad.
Me "I'm having an issue with interviews, please help I'm struggling"

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

🙃🙃🙃
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