Video ID: zfYd4qUSRu4
YouTube URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfYd4qUSRu4
Added At: 13-06-25 21:17:24
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Sentiment: Positive
Categories: Tech, Self-Help
Tags: software engineering, interview, programming, code, tutorial, developer
Summary
The video shares humorous stories about interview experiences as a software engineer. The speaker showcases two examples of poorly written code and praises the creativity behind them. One example is a function that sorts an array by printing out numbers with a delay equal to the number itself.
Transcript
as a software engineer I've given hundreds of interviews over the last couple years and the code that some people write under pressure is pretty funny so here's some of the stupidest code that I've seen that's so stupid it's pretty clever so here's the first one and is even function I don't think this person knew what the mod operator was because look just look at this code so they get the absolute value of the number passed in then they set this Boolean to true then they do a for Loop going up to that number and they keep flipping the Boolean from True to false FSE and then they return whatever the end result is and it's kind of clever I mean if you don't have the mod operator it's basically going up to this number and then flipping back and forth and if you flip it back to where it was then it's even and if you don't it's odd but kind of crazy so this is probably my favorite they were asked to sort an array so given an array of numbers just sort it so they go through a for Loop through the whole array and they set a timeout where it'll print out that number but only after a delay of that number and I was like that is genius this is so good let me show you what this looks like okay so here I have it and let me hit enter right now look at that it's sorts the array it's so good it's so stupid and so good now my company didn't let me pass the last guy but he's a pass in my book because whoever whips that out during a programming interview genius genius