<story><title>Coding Interview Preparation in JavaScript</title><url>https://www.educative.io/collection/page/6630002/190001/270001</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jbob2000</author><text>So today I had to implement the XDomainRequest API to support IE9 for one of our features. Yesterday I worked on a branch to upgrade our front end framework to a newer version. The day before that I was refactoring out our old API from an older module. Last week I was working through a specification document from our product team to implement a new interface.&lt;p&gt;Where, in any of my day-to-day job duties, am I going to need to find the kth permutation of a set of numbers? or clone a directed graph? If someone presented me with these questions in an interview, I would be tempted to leave.&lt;p&gt;And in reflecting on my job as a coder, I find that most of the work I do is janitorial; clean this up, add support for this, fix this, talk with product about this, break this up into smaller pieces... Never once have I had to implement a feature that would require these types of algorithms. Like 98% of my challenges are &amp;quot;this needs to work this way, but that needs to work that way, how can we make them work together?&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m not picking at educative.io per se, they&amp;#x27;re just a symptom. It just really sucks that there are some companies out that believe that if you can rattle off an algorithm, then you must be a good coder.</text></comment>
<story><title>Coding Interview Preparation in JavaScript</title><url>https://www.educative.io/collection/page/6630002/190001/270001</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mycroft-holmes</author><text>The sample problems are...well let&amp;#x27;s just say if every dev I work with had to solve those problems on the spot right now, there&amp;#x27;d be no developers in the office tomorrow. And guess what? We still push code. Our application is still being built.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s problems like that which terrify newbies.</text></comment>