alot of the products and features we use everyday are built by faceless software engineers who arent in the limelight. I thought it might be interesting to start a blog where each week I ask an software engineers/ics(individual contributors) from a different company a few questions to learn how they do things differently.
questions I'm thinking could be interesting:
- Whens the last time you used an algorithm (eg b-tree) and for what?
- What did you set on fire and what happened next?
- whats a new interesting tool or site youve been using lately?
- What feature did you build youre proud of and why?
How does that sound? What other questions would be interesting to hear? and is anyone interested in joining to be an interviewee
I'd be curious to hear how many people like me would answer "for a coding interview" for this question.
I haven't coded such an "algorithm" since 2002 or so. The closest I've come is calling some framework library's binary sort method.