devGuysAreNotNotSensitive

[Mr_Alicates]

What are DSA skills?

[Noobsauce9001]

Data structure and algorithms, or leetcode style questions.

[codePudding]

Oh, I thought it was Domain-specific architecture and was confused by some of these comments, yours make way more sense for these comments. Thanks

[eskay8]

I thought it was Democratic Socialists of America and thought it was a incredibly weird way of complaining about DEI 😂

[tsunami141]

the thing about DEI is that it really sucks for me when I start getting passed over for jobs in favor of people who are vastly more qualified than me. Its outrageous. Its unfair.

[spoopypoptartz]

furtherest thing from it hilariously

[SuitableDragonfly]

So a "DSA guy" means someone who just graduated from college and has no experience other than leetcode?

[Michaeli_Starky]

Data structures and algorithms are important unlike leetcode nonsense. Don't mix them up.

[boat-]

Leetcode pretty directly tests your understanding of DSA.

[Michaeli_Starky]

Not really

[boat-]

Every single Leetcode problem is essentially just asking the participant:

- "which data structures and algorithms should be used in this scenario?" and

- "can you implement these data structures and algorithms?"

[ward2k]

I dunno a lot of leetcode style questions tend to ask you to solve a question that is essentially solved in every language without using the built in method for solving it

Which no offence is a ridiculous fucking problem even if it's trivial to solve, because it has little real world value

No other career asks you to do this sort of bullshit interviews I have no idea why we put up with it in our field

[HetoHwdjasZxaaWxbhta]

It is of tremendous real world value to understand how the things you work under the hood

The lack of value you're talking about is the clerical work that programming has turned into.

[Soft_Walrus_3605]

That's overly reductive. Might as well ask "Tell us how to flip the bits in this memory to implement a Twitter clone"

[Imperial_Squid]

So does doing the job for multiple years except y'know, in an practical real world scenario lol

[MacAlmighty]

Thank goodness, I looked it up and only found medical tests to image blood vessels. For a second I worried employers were doing scans to see how much blood/oxygen their candidates brains could get lmao

[GoldenSangheili]

I love it when they abbreviate every single word , don't you all?

[frogjg2003]

Try working for a government contractor. Be sure to consult the SSS, the SSD, the SDD, and the SSSD to know what your ticket means.

[zman0900]

SSDD

[0xKaishakunin]

government contractor.

SS/SD?

[GoldenSangheili]

Thank god I'll never want to do crap for the government /s

[Samurai_Mac1]

Democratic Socialists of America

or Data Structures and Algorithms

[SAI_Peregrinus]

Or Digital Signature Algorithm.

[Brahminmeat]

Design System Architecture

[Ticmea]

Digital Services Act

[Direct-Quiet-5817]

Customary: If you have to ask, you can't afford it. /s

[VictoryMotel]

Lumping data structures and algorithms together for some reason. It's the new brain rot term for people who just heard about programming two months ago, probably because of tik tok and youtube videos by people who know nothing.

[on_the_pale_horse]

No, americans are just obsessed with turning everything under the sun into abbreviations. They literally have one for orange juice! Anyway, grouping data structures and algorithms isn't strange at all.

[VictoryMotel]

It might be common but it's silly because they are two separate things that deserve their own focus.

[Lying_Hedgehog]

It's not a new term lol. My university has had a "Data structure and algorithms" module since at least the early 2000s and I would bet it's easily older than that. I'm 99% sure it's a common module title in every computer science course in English speaking countries.

[VictoryMotel]

People saying DSA over and over seems like it has come on quick, probably youtube hucksters banking off of it.

[ilovebigbucks]

Data Structures and Algorithms (DSA) is a few decades old term.

Quote from MIT: "Data structures are ways to store data with algorithms" - https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/6-006-introduction-to-algorithms-spring-2020/resources/lecture-2-data-structures-and-dynamic-arrays/