u/dalvincooked wrote (the comment Michael replied to):
I only took one interview, but the hardest question I felt we were expected to solve was to find the length of an array using recursion with no built in js methods ( keep track of index we were at with a parameter ). That is a question that’s either in csx or was covered in cs pr
u/michaelnovati replied · ★ FEATURED
Why do you think people fail to get in?
Also for that question, if they expect you to pass in an index to an array recursively that doesn't show a strong understanding of recursion and how it would be used to solve complex problems in the future, like DP. So I would barely call that testing recursion. That is just "can you write a for loop recursively".
I hope they properly teach recursion in Codesmith afterwards and hwo to use it to solve complex problems. At Formation, recursion alone is something most people spend two to four or more weeks of intense practice to truly understanding and weild as a powerful tool to solve problems with.