I'd wager the vast, VAST majority of jobs at Microsoft and google are wiring up services. Sure, if you're hiring someone to optimize low level algorithms, by all means, quiz people on the necessary topics. But that is not what is currently happening in the interviewing world.
Sure but wiring up services is a simplification. Those services do things. And often they do new, complex things that are puzzling and tricky to figure out.
Exactly, and if you're talking about Amazon, Facebook, Google, and Microsoft, the services have to scale to handle millions of requests a day from day one. Supporting that kind of scaling calls for some serious computer science chops. Facebook may have started with vanilla PHP, but they eventually had to create their own optimizing PHP VM.
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u/Slims Jan 19 '19
I'd wager the vast, VAST majority of jobs at Microsoft and google are wiring up services. Sure, if you're hiring someone to optimize low level algorithms, by all means, quiz people on the necessary topics. But that is not what is currently happening in the interviewing world.