Have you failed junior dev interviews?

#1

Hello!

I am still in the early stages of learning ES5 in .js but i’m reading articles and seem to detect a pattern of companies asking to solve algorithms as a “general knowledge test”.

What is the very first algorithm someone learning .js can learn (memorize) to just get her/his feet wet?

Topics like “Edge Cases” and queries like;

“Depending on a function that takes three arguments… What if it only has two? What if your algorithm uses two pointers, but the array of nums has a length of 1 ? Are you assuming what types of values you are going to be getting?”

Seem like anxiety provoking interview leads.

Thanks for your time if you read this message,
Phil.

#2

Trying to memorize an algorithm sort of misses the point. ‘Algorithms’ is short for ‘a pattern in problem solving that we happen to see a lot’. Focus on the problem solving and practice solving problems in code.