Java is literally easy bro tf is there to stress about...
this post was submitted on 05 Feb 2025
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run it in a vm
deserved to fail
Probably promoted to middle management instead
He might be overqualified
I don't think you can memorize how code works enough to explain it and not learn codding.
You'd think that, but I believe you are underestimating people's ability to mindlessly memorize stuff without learning it.
It's what we're trained to do throughout our education system.
I have a hard time getting mad about it considering it's what we told them to do from a very young age.
Exactly my thought
It's super easy to learn how algorithms and what not work without knowing the syntax of a language. I can tell you how a binary search tree works, but I have no clue how to code it in Java because I've never used Java.
And similarly, i could read code in a language I dont know, understand what it does and how it works even if I don't know the syntax well enough to write it myself
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I mean same, but you can look to the official docs for like what a loop or queue looks like
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I'm a full stack polyglot and tbh I couldn't program in some languages without reference docs / LLM even though I ship production code in those language all the time. Memorizing all of the function and method names and all of the syntax/design pattern stuff is pretty hard especially when it's not really needed in contemporary dev.
Yeah a doctor has to read up on a disease in a book when they encounter it. Completely normal
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He should be grateful. I hear programming interviews are pretty similar, as in the employer provides the code, and will pretty much watch you work it in some cases. Rather be embarrassed now than interview time. I'm honestly impressed he went the entire time memorizing the code enough to be able to explain it, and picked up nada.
He probably couldn't explain it well if he didn't know how to code at all imo
I'm honestly impressed he went the entire time memorizing the code enough to be able to explain it, and picked up nada.
Or he asked the LLM to summarise it and memorised that.