i'm not talking about "excellent" programmes, i'm talking about
basic
CS knowledge. "why crc32 is bad hashing function?" "how to
negate
machine integer without using unary minus operator?" "what is
closure,
what is continuation and how they differ?" and so on. those are
basic
questions, yet i was forced to add those to my interviews.
I sincerely have no idea why you consider this to be basic
knowledge. If we're talking C programmers, the vast majority
won't know what a closure or a continuation is. Maybe the working
environments you've been exposed to are drastically different
from the ones I have. I've been interviewing a ton of candidates
at work recently, and in my experience your expectations are way
off.
People like us that even bother to learn D or be in this forum
are not average programmers. I don't mean that in an elitist
sense, I mean we're weird and expecting the rest of the world to
be like us is, IMHO, silly.
I stay up at night watching programming conference videos. Nobody
else where I work does. Oh, and this is coming from me, a person
who was recently told had too high expectations of what basic C++
knowledge should be only weeks ago.
Atila
