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It is because in most of the company specially in India most of seniors are useless. Most of them got the position because of some connection.
Technically they don't know anything. As they never worked on real project. Hence the algo parts.
Why senior dev hates it?
Being in the industry for so long we have to constantly upgrade our self. We consistently learn new technology and real life we use existing library.
So. Basically Aws, NPM, dDjango etc stay in active memory rather that algo and data structure.
So, a real developer would never ask you algo rather the question will be related with the project for which they are hiring.
For example. We were looking for someone who was good with google maps and know Cartesian system. So the interview question.
Bottom line those people who ask algos are the people who have not much dev experience and they did not want to take blame so the algo and ds.
TL;DR: What do you hate about the current interview process for software dev positions?
I have been reading interview related posts on reddit and other places and I have noticed that there is a lot of hate, especially from more senior devs, towards the typical software dev interview pattern i.e. the one focused on algorithms and data structures and I don't understand why. The current methods may be far from ideal but I think they do a good job of eliminating the false-positives. Plus, I can't think of a better alternative. Sure, by using current interview methods some good devs might get rejected because they haven't used/needed/studied many algorithms and data structures after they left college, but for any big company that gets thousands of applications every year, that wouldn't be a big issue compared to the negative impact a false-positive may create. I am still in college so I maybe biased, I would like to hear your thoughts on this.
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