Keeping my face straight as I ask them why are they asking me DS&A questions for a backend development job in which damn near everything will be taken care of by a package or a special config inside of something like spring boot or netcore and where damn near most of my requests will be of the form "can thou make tis button LARGER?"

Then watching their sad faces as I terminate the interview because I don't play those fucking games for web development jobs.

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@fzammetti yes, I expect a candidate to. But I also expect an interview to make more sense for what comes at hand in terms of their job. I did not ask any of my employees any DS&A questions. They all perform wonderfully, I can leave the office and task them with something and it will get done.

As someone whose voice actually matters when hiring, shit like DS&A is retarded. I need people that can lead, not solve the easiest way on an algo problem.

It has worked great for years now, as a hiring manager. Other than that, no one gives a shit about it, it is pointless, specially in web development, I care more about the intricacies of a web framework, i am not going to X someone out because they know DS&A over someone that knows say Laravel or spring boot. Shit is useless, we don't work on theory, but on products being pushed to the customer. A better question would deal with that.

@AleCx04 Most of those skills are easy to transfer as well. I think the issue with theory questions is that you end up studying for the interview. Even if you use the algo or struct often you just forget the name.

@fzammetti No, really, what datastructure _is_ the DOM? I don't mean what structure do the html, body, head, div and p tags comprise, I mean the whole thing, all features you'd expect a good frontend dev to at least be aware of.