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Data structures and algos question

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u/michaelnovati replied · ★ FEATURED
We have this guide that collects resources for different topics and was curated by three engineers on our team (myself included) with over 40 years of top tier industry experience running interviews at Facebook, Microsoft, Nextdoor, etc... https://formation.dev/guide/ Disclosure: Formation is not a bootcamp but we work people to level up their careers later on. Only 11% of people we worked with who got a job in the past year we're bootcamp grads without a job so I want to make it clear that I'm sharing this to help and not to solicit you to look into the training, as you sound a bit too early in your career. And yes they are fairly common at larger companies. As companies become larger they want to standardize their interview processes which means having really consistent topics and types of interviews. Data structures and algorithms interviews are about as general problems as you can get to develop a consistent hiring process around.There are thousands and thousands of stacks and frameworks that you could be an expert in and it's really hard to evaluate all of those properly yet scale. hence why these generic data structures and algorithms problems are so useful.

u/ninjanoodlin wrote (the comment Michael replied to):

Then why do you keep on posting in r/codingbootcamp you practically live here

u/michaelnovati replied · · edited ★ FEATURED
Lots of people here with no industry experience and bootcamp grads with very little industry experience.... after working with hundreds of people from bootcamp backgrounds and from top tier CS backgrounds, and from conducting hundreds of interviews myself I feel like I have a valuable perspective to share in this sub. I spend anywhere from 5 mins to 30 mins a day on Reddit, mostly commenting on push notifications I get while on the go, so I don't "live here" 🤣 Also, while 11% of people at Formation graduated a bootcamp and hadn't found a job that way, more than half of the people have a non-CS degree background, so I also want to connect with people who might come to Formation years in the future. Finally, we are a for-profit technology company, and some day we're going to expand and offer more options for more people and it's useful to keep a pulse on the bootcamp community in general.