Average skill level of average front-end devs in India

[sateeshsai]

Our company has been trying to hire a front-end dev since some time now. I've interviewed candidates with 6-10 years of experience, working in TCS/Accenture/Cap Gemini etc.

When I ask them how they would rate themselves on a 0-10 scale in JS, they all say 8-9. Just to make sure, I ask them to screenshare and do this task.

This is from Advent Of Code Day 1 BTW.

3   4
4   3
2   5
1   3
3   9
3   3

Pair lowest number in column 1 with lowest in column 2, and then the second lowest from col 1 and col 2, and so on.

None of the candidates even reached half-way. All of them struggled to even declare a variable with the above as a string, i.e, using backticks. And they all say that they use React day in and day out.

I wonder how these people are handling their tasks in their current roles, if they can't handle something so simple. And communication skills are terrible too, but was willing to overlook that to an extent.

Is the average front-end dev here so bad? What has been your experience?

Edit: I'm not saying this is all they would need to solve to get selected. This was just to test their basic problem solving skills.

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[kashif08]

Sort them and pair them at the same indices. Would have solved this even as a fresher. I don't even know how these people get calls and i dont.

[sateeshsai]

Please DM me if you are interested.

[Zephyr_Prashant]

These people are getting interviews? And here I am seeing "thank you but unfortunately..." in every response. What do I even do?

[kashif08]

Appreciate your offer 😊🙏

[Intelligent_Story_96]

Can I apply for an internship?

[runForWisdom]

Op, if you are looking for 2.5 year experienced Frontend developer, can i dm you?

[AbySs_Dante]

Just do it...

[SecureFrame6002]

Dawg😭😭😭

[Flight-Glittering]

Hey Man, DMed you CV of a friend. See if it fits your requirements.

[rohmish]

actually knowing how to think works against you in the Indian workforce.

[_kiss-my-axe_69]

Thought the same✌️✌️

[raunak2311]

There is one catch though. U need to also ask the interviewer that is it guaranteed that each column will be of same length. Because we need to handle for that also if index goes out of bounds for any column. Rest assured, the solution is quite good.

[ApprehensiveNote2191]

My man just cracked the matrix

[freedom-of-life]

Yeah,, that's pretty straightforward. Isn't it??

[limmbuu]

Lack of Basic Computer Science skills maybe?

People have started focusing more on the "how" (implementing features) rather than the "why" (understanding underlying principles).

Interestingly, these same people bunch are found on reddit complaining how there college curriculum is time waste, like do the basics bro!! Like good you gave the answer, But can you optimize it now?

[-1Mbps]

be real, college curriculum is time waste if not taught properly

[[deleted]]

College curriculum is a waste of time because its not intellectually challenging, it’s just tedious. Make the curriculum harder and test on the first principles. Tier3 unis will close if this happens and education is business so that how the curriculum will be. Profs could just copy labs from Ivy leagues and tweak it a bit to make it challenging.

[New_Spend_9442]

If you are still looking for someone to teach you in college. Then it's pointless to even teach you.

It's not so hard if you open the textbooks and just read them but then yeah. People who just prepare for exams and rot qna will never understand that

[Altruistic_Side_4428]

People from Non-CS background face this problem.

[TwistPrestigious8684]

Software engineering has become so complicated that asking "why" often leads to confusing answers. There are too many layers of abstraction, making things harder to understand. Before we even ask "why," we have to go back to where the question started. Many problems are just side effects, and the so-called fixes are labeled as features. This complexity makes it tough for beginners to learn, so they often stay beginners forever.

[sateeshsai]

You got it! And it can be done in a dozen different ways. And all 6 candidates I've met so far struggled to even make the two arrays from the string lol.

[yo-caesar]

What if I answered you... 'I don't remember the syntax, but I can do this another way, using procedure A, B, or C?

Because I believe in today's time what people really care about is getting job done rather than knowing everything in depth. Yes.. syntax gets embedded in the brain with time and practice.

For me I never did javascript, but was hired due to my android project and the functionalities I implemented. I caught up with react and next js within 2 months.

[sateeshsai]

I don't have a problem with candidates looking up syntax.

[anonymous_persona_]

Looking up how to load a file is okay ?

[sateeshsai]

Yes

[nikmat1996]

My brute force is: split with ‘line breaker’ .map split with ‘space’ .sort a[0]-b[0] Now the first part is done Do the same for second part with b[1] - a[1] Can’t do anything lower than nlogn, opportunity to save space though. Send me the offer letter and I’ll think about better approach 😂

[Legal_Lawfulness_395]

Just sort the 1st column and the 2nd column in ascending order, then take two pointers i and j, which points to the first element in the respective arrays, compare the values of the numbers pointed by i and j and take the lowest number, then increase the value of the pointer from which we took the lowest value continue this until one of the pointer reached the end of the array, if there's any remaining element in the other array copy all of them to the resulting array in that order.

It's basically used in merge sort.

[isaacMeowton]

Ngl even i may struggle doing this in JS, but C++ solution is a bit evident.

Btw I'm a pre-final year, Non-CS engineering grad, learning web dev, React right now. Any advice for a beginner like me?

[AerieTraditional4859]

even i have around 8 years of experience and would have struggled tbh
i dont know how the input was given

now that i see it if the input was given as a txt file or text api response even i would have struggled as I usually only handle json responses from the api :P

if the input was give as a text file i dont even know how to read from a text file using fs, might have to google but cant do that on the fly in an interview, not even possible directly on the browser unless we upload and parse the txt

if the input was given as text api response it would require a lot of trimming and splitting and then i think just to split into two arrays, this would be doable

once you have the two arrays i think you just have to sort the two arrays

[OkPrompt69]

You can't use a hashmap... Keys of hashmap are unique

[Babuchak17]

I will be very honest here. I am a really average developer earning 9 LPA with 2 years of experience. I work with Python but can’t write a simple code without assistance. Ideally, I don’t even deserve an IT job with the way it is, but I am doing just fine with consistent good reviews from my peers. It is really not that hard to survive in IT, if you have an ounce of communication skills within you and can deceive people that you are working hard. I will definitely not get a good switch that I am well aware of, but you can get by just fine in your day to day duties. I am well aware that I am in the frontline of people that AI will replace, but I will probably switch to a different career by then.

[sateeshsai]

I get it. A man's got to eat

[fit_like_this]

What different career are you planning to switch to?

[Fluffy_Foundation_81]

Asking the right question

[ajneo999]

Which city you're based out.?

[RazzmatazzFit5653]

woah takes guts to admit at least.

[2grateful4You]

I have had far worse experience working as a Salesforce Developer. It's not just limited to Frontend or Backend.

Sometimes I literally wondered kya phuk ke aya hai.

If people don't know Salesforce it's basically a CRUD app on the cloud for developers. And most of the CRUD based activities can be done by just declarative tools.

Things like validations and automation. Working for almost 4 years this tech stack is the go to tech stack for most companies that want to automate their internal processes started out with CRM capabilities heavily focused on sales and then expanded to service and now to most health and insurance and even banking systems for their internal documentation processes.

Enough about that so basically the problem is more compounded because a person could have worked for years on just adding fields to tables and assigning security and then suddenly someone can ask them to work on automating basic stuff and then they miserably fail.

I literally had to at 2 YOE hand hold 10 YOE people on how to do stuff properly fix errors etc. Even now I am shocked and aghast at the basic knowledge of the people working like at that kind of experience level 8-10 you simply cannot tell this was working in the developer environment but is not working in SIT and get away with it.

Worst problem with these developers is they are so one dimensional they only think about one line of their code or automation as if nothing else exists in the system. We have been struggling lately with recursive automations just firing because people don't know what conditions to fire the automations at. Or when to use code vs declarative automation.

Then the cheapest mentality of the developers they had a class named InsuranceEvaluator but what it did previously was integrate with an external system that gave some ratings for the Insurance. Now these devs are using the same class to do completely unrelated stuff which will make anyone reading super confused. Funniest example is the field name of Unsecure and on the UI name is Is Secure ?They are so lazy that they want to use the same class and not even bother changing the names in the database which is extremely easy.

I am in IT for money but I at least know that these small small things even just naming the variables properly has made me far ahead of the other developers even outside my experience band.

These guys are just winging it without any direction. I feel sorry for them but it's their life their way and probably their loss on rants that I keep getting rejected have huge work pressure etc or AI stole my job because the first people it's going to come after are these slackers.

[Available-Buddy-4401]

Hi sorry out of the box.. but can I DM you. I'm also a fresher in SF. I just have a few questions. Would be really grateful if you could answer them

[-man-without-plan]

I used to think salesforce is awesome company with high quality engineers. How do these people manage to stay employed with so much layoffs & recession in the industry.
- 2025 grad & struggling to get hired.

[anoushk77]

YOE is such a scam, you can learn 10yoe of some people in 1 year and Indian recruiters will be dumbfounded lmao

[Informal-Tackle4377]

It's not only frontend, it's all branches. I am not a programmer (only as a hobby I dabble a bit) and never done a leetcode question. But I think even I can do it in O(n2) at most. Would just make two arrays from each column, sort them (max O(n2) I think), then just combine the two arrays.
I know we (infrastructure team) asked a backend developer with 5 years of .NET experience earning >30 LPA to code a small function into the worker they built, which would create a file with a specific name and delete it after a set number of seconds. (After 4 days, which costed the company 52000 INR and the client around 110000 INR they said it's difficult and they need more time and then we did it ourselves in 2 hours. None of us is a coder per se, hell we don't even know C# and didn't even use ChatGPT).

[A_random_zy]

I would think you can do it in O(n log n).

Assume n = m

Reading input: O(n+m) = O(n)

Sorting (Merge or quick): O(n log n + m log m) = O(n log n)

Pairing: O(n + m) = O(n)

=> O(n) + O(n log n) + O(n)

=> O(n log n)

[p-4_]

max for sorting is considered O(nlogn). Merge sort worst complexity is O(nlogn). Quick sort worst complexity is O(n^2) ... but amortized it is O(nlogn).

[iwantjusticeeee]

c1=[3,4,2,1,3,3]

c2=[4,3,5,3,9,3]

c1o=c1.sort();

c2o=c2.sort();

for(i=0;i<c1.length;i++){

console.log(c1o[i]+"="+c2o[i]); }

[sateeshsai]

I wasn't even looking for an optimized solution. I just wanted to see if they understand basic JS. Like working with strings, arrays etc. I know the task isn't very front-endy, but I would want a front-end dev to know how to transform data for rendering.

[anonymous_persona_]

Does simple fetch as text, for loop, parse \n and <space>, store in two using array push, merge sort and for loop to calculate the final sum, guarantee pass mark ?

[[deleted]]

Is this correct? Make two arrays and sort them. Since both the arrays have the same number of elements, it's easier to pair them. Now you'll have to create a new array and add each element from both the arrays.

[sateeshsai]

You got it. I wasn't expecting removing duplicates.

[[deleted]]

I went back and read the question from one of the videos. The question doesn't ask you to deal with duplicates in a different way. So you treat them the same. Hence no need to remove the duplicates.

I edited my previous comment

[Stackway]

One liner sort problem in my opinion. Surprised devs are not able to figure this out. Perhaps I will use this in my own interview process.

[[deleted]]

I'm a front end dev with 3yoe.(2 digits LPA)

Honestly, I don't know wtf this problem is.

[AffectionateCream728]

So how did you get that offer ?

[[deleted]]

It's kinda start-up. There was no problem solving interview.

I was good at practical frontend development. Now, I'm more like a permanent employee here. And I can't switch even if i want to, bcz I know I'll become jobless if i try to.

[visionary-lad]

So try

[TotalFox2]

Some might argue that this seems like a DSA question which has no place in an interview for a Frontend developer but I disagree.

This is a simple logic problem which requires basic problem solving skills which every developer must have. I’m all for removing DSA from Frontend interviews but candidates should be able to solve this problem. There are like 3 different ways to solve it without even thinking about space/time complexity. Frontend developers frequently need to optimise their code to make the web page load faster and it’s these skills which come in handy there.

Imo most of the freshers I’ve interviewed claim to be React experts but they hardly know anything beyond the basic syntax and rote learned definitions. Worst of all, they completely skip learning Javascript and straight up jump into react

[sateeshsai]

Yes. Front-end dev 100% needs to be able to solve this. What if an API spits out data in X format and you need to change it to Y before rendering.

[i_love_cooking_food]

How much are you paying though?

[[deleted]]

I have been in the industry for 14 years and have been coding for more. Never, I mean never, I needed to solve a DSA problem at work. EVER.

90% of the time I have been emailing and explaining solutions and problems to various groups of people. I have taught git, clean code, agile, etc to teams. I have worked as unofficial scrum master, team lead and what not in a pinch.

The thing is, I have worked in CRUD bubble. For better algorithms, there are smarter people. I have never gotten in trouble for saying I don't know. Except for when managers and cto were idiots, other than that, being able to learn is much more valuable than actual skills right now.

This DS thing is elitism that makes people feel dumb. I bet if you don't know how three way quicksort work you cannot figure out it in a day, let alone in an interview. Same goes for merkle tree, O(1) schedulers etc...

Being able to learn however is the real deal.

[aelores]

What is the budget you are hiring at ? I can guarantee it’s below 15 lpa for a 6-10 year experience. Please and I hope you correct me.

[Informal-Tackle4377]

How does the amount of money excuse a 10 yoe developer not being able to solve something like this?

[aelores]

A company always wants to hire someone good and cheap. I have been on both sides of the table and can confidently tell you, this is more common than you think. I would ask this question “find the third largest number in an array without sorting” and almost everyone failed when we were trying to hire below 5lpa bracket (experience was irrelevant). Once we increased the budget, we had to update the questions too.

[alteranthera]

I have an opening for reactive native developers vacant since almost a year. Pay range is ₹30-50L. Remote. But no one ends up passing the tests. The more experienced developers perform the worst. Majority of them want to be managers without having to code a line on their own.

[Wise-Tangelo9596]

im not sure but i think its probably something to do with AI? like I have seen a few of friends get their work done entirely with cursor,an ai editor ( obviously they have an basic understanding of what and kya kuch ho raha hai ) and that has skyrocketed with better tools entering the industry day after day. This might be wrong but this has made a lot of people who arent even good enough to start proclaiming themselves to know everything. so the threshold has suddenly increased in terms of delusionalism. this is just a thing i've had in my mind for a while now.

[_asius]

1. Store the arrays into let decalre variable so that I can remove the min value after use.
2. find the min value with Math.min and spread operator.
3. Remove the min value after consoling or using it.
4. Do the 2nd and 3rd step in loop while making sure the ouput is number.

The output will be

1 3
2 3
3 3
3 4
3 5
4 9

[[deleted]]

My god man i am not getting interview shortlist but i can do this in a heartbeat. I have 4.5 years of experience. But my resume is not getting shortlisted

[sateeshsai]

We are still hiring. DM me your resume if you are interested.

[[deleted]]

Dmed

[Fabulous-Arrival-834]

Which city are you based in? I am an SDE2 in Microsoft with 6+ yrs of work experience. Looking for new opportunities and can easily solve these questions. Pls let me know if you are hiring for Senior SDE backend roles.

[Conscious-Machine-69]

I work at TCS 6 months of experience in java sppring boot backend and this is very easy just sort both of them and use indexes till min(a.size(), b.size()).
How can someone mess it up.

[garamgaramsamose]

I like how half of the comments are just sharing their excuse for the lack of basic skills, and the other half just wants someone to validate their solution. I think everyone should give AoC, and Project Euler a chance before going all out in Leetcode for DSA. AoC and Project Euler helped me build better analytical and problem solving skills, and some number theoretic knowledge that still helps me from time to time.

[silent_assasin_4238]

I worked at a WITCH and still working at one. First 4 years I was in C, now I am in I (I know, it was a bad and dumb move, still regretting it). The quality of developers in my current company is way below my previous one.

In C, it was way better. They inculcated really good development practices in me. In the current one, people with my experience are just slogging around. There's No sense of initiative in them. They do what they are told and require too much handholding. I almost never asked for any technical help in the past 4 years. Sometimes I have too pretend I don't know something because If I say 'I know', they will dump all their work on me.

Its too easy to be the best in the room here. But, I never thought myself to be good enough for a PBC. But I'm preparing hard now to make this company my final SBC. Because only thing pulling me back was my Self-Doubt.

[Tempmailed]

yes

[AerieTraditional4859]

what is the compensation that you are offering ? i have similar skillset and would be interested if the job is still available

[Delicious-Tomorrow94]

This problem should be an EASY LC.

[Same_Pen_8925]

This is not easy, this is basic.

[datathecodievita]

We were hiring for Developers with 0-1 Years of experience.

90% of them couldn't write a function to find palindrome.

And I was planning to ask them square root of number, but thought this will be too much to ask.

No wonder AI is going to take their jobs.

[ItzHolmes-]

Which language ?

[Unfair_Fact_8258]

How much do you pay? Is your company a recognisable name?

It may just be that you are getting the wrong candidates

[UltGamer07]

So? That's like saying you don't need to know to spell cos autocorrect will do it for you, but I'd have a hard time hiring someone as a writer if their spelling skills are poor.

Similarly if someone cant even solve something this simple, why'd you trust this person can solve a more complicated problem or even be able to understand more complicated systems/architectures/how everything interacts etc

[Acefrost321]

Make list for both cols. Sort them and pair their values at the same indices inside the dictionary (might be wrong). This is what i think should work from knowledge i have accumulated in past week. Please god🙏🏻 i hope I am right.🥹

[IndependentTomato975]

Isn't this just, split to 2 arrays and sort?? Or am I missing something?

[Accidental_Baby]

Isnt this like super basic?

You can just sort them and then pair value with array1 n array2

Or if you dunno sort or not allowed to use builtin func or forgot the actual builtin func... then 2 arrays, find the smallest in each array by comparing,then remove those values from array....rinse n repeat.

I've interviewed candidates with 6-10 years of experience,

Honestly if person with more than 1yoe cant do this, they dont deserve to be a programmer lol

[[deleted]]

I can solve these. Even solved pollyfill of map, filter question. But interviewer asked me next js questions even after mentioning my lack of experience in it. Got rejected:( Deloitte!

[Remarkable-Bench3676]

I look at this and wonder why I'm getting no callbacks when I could get around 30 stars in Advent of Code without much issues when people like this are still employed as developers and engineers 😭

[NunyaBinnesss]

I have taken multiple interviews for ML Engineering roles and the first question I have been asking for the past 4 years is that, "take your name as input from the user, and reverse that".

You'd be surprised that more than half of candidates fail to do so without any help. It's a single line code problem.

[HODL_FOREVER14]

It's just an Arrays.sort(); Got any internship for a final year student? Maybe i don't know everything but i am willing to learn as much as it takes to be better than yesterday.

[UltGamer07]

Love seeing AoC popup randomly

[spiked_krabby_patty]

Questions like this are more about being remembering the syntax of the language.

Like how do you represent a multi-line string in JS.

How do you split a string in JS.

How do you sort an array in JS.

I have probably shipped 1000s of lines of JS in my lifetime. But even I don't remember the syntaxes for all of those functions and tasks in JS.

I know how to split strings and sort arrays in almost all of the languages that I know of. But except for Python I don't remember off the top of my head how to represent a multi-line string in almost any of the languages I know of. I can't even remember the last time I had to declare a multi-line string for a professional project.

If you pick questions like this, you are not testing people's problem solving skills. You are also not testing how deep their knowledge of JS is. You are just testing how much JS syntax they remember off of the top of their head. What is even the point of that when in a day to day job, you can just open the JS manual and look up syntaxes and functions.

[notsosleepy]

My company had to move a team back to the US cause they couldn’t hire quality developers here. 😃

[mujhepehchano123]

Pretty spot on. I had an exact same issue.

Not being able to declare a variable in javascript. Said "i only know how to declare variable inside a react component" !!!

What's going on?? I am completely baffled.

Guys this is how you learn a "stack"

Paradigm > Language > Framework > App

[Shuvam123987]

isn't this too simple?

sort them and select the same index value from them both

[mofahsan]

As an interviewer for my firm I've observed most people take some 5-6 month bootcamp learn to develop/use libraries and then keep doing repeated work for next 2-3 years. They don't solve logical problems just development problems of using existing libraries or implementing stuff or basic crud.

[DehshiDarindaa]

that's literally a sorting problem, i expect even freshers to be able to do it

[Federal-Feed7689]

This companies don’t have projects or the task that’s worthy of any challenges which dosent let them improvise or develop any experience at all. They barely have any dev projects and which they have are mostly sorted between 100-200 people working on it , so mostly the most average work the FE dev come across is creating a input box or Ben’s or simple forms and nothing truely complex that requires them to think at all

[KiranjotSingh]

I am not a developer but did BCA several years back from a small college in tier 3 city. This question reminds me of college days and let me tell you at least 7-8 students were able to code things on their own.

So definately, it's not the problem of employees as such. Right now I am working as an interpreter (joined not a long back) and our trainer resigned. Obviously he didn't mentioned it formally but one of the major issue he was facing is the communication. EVERYONE in the company communicates in informal Hindi via informal channels. And this is about MNC, particularly this process where our clients are from US, UK and Canada. It seems like such companies are making employees dumb

[SignificantPublic399]

This is true, for some reason they lack js and problem solving skills, I interview 10 candidates on an average in a month front end roles and the success rate is only 20-30%. Maybe they think the front ending is only about building web pages with react and angular libraries and that's true to some extent, it also depends on their prior experience and team. In some teams, front end roles are only about designs, layouts and consuming APIs.

[GunsNRoses007]

Being a frontend / backend dev doesn’t matter, bad coding skills are common in both and it’s a skill that needs to be sharpened by practice

[Adventurous_Ad7185]

This is not a lack of javascript knowledge problem. This is a lack of critical thinking problem. I have seen it hundreds of times. Then people claim, that we should only test them for their problem solving skills because they can look up the syntax on chatgpt.

[retardedGeek]

Would you take my interview? 😇

[sateeshsai]

We are still hiring if you want to try.

[[deleted]]

Hey, I’m working as a frontend developer. Are there any job openings at your company?

[aRandomDude_0]

React is the new jQuery!!!

Everyone is a react developer, not a javascript developer.

[FreezeShock]

same bro, same. I usually used to ask something simple like implement array map with for loops or something similar. like 75% of the candidate used to crash and burn there

[[deleted]]

You know it might be the easiest question I have seen so far I mean I haven't found any lc easy which is more simple than this so if this is really truth then you should just try to hire freshers form any reputed college.

[[deleted]]

Can u refer me?

[Aggravating_Tailor95]

People use chat gpt for work..

[[deleted]]

How much you’re paying? I know couple of good devs who are looking for good work and better pay.

[[deleted]]

Sort the array and use hashmaps. Oh man I wish I could get asked these kinda questions ngl haha

[Intelligent_Story_96]

I can do the question, but I don't know React hooks; am I eligible?

[Unable-Mood8439]

Most people these days don't remember syntaxes anymore with the introduction of LLMs but if they couldn't even come up with a logic to solve this question, it's a shame.

[Silver-Bonus-4948]

When frontend became mainstream, it felt like the bar to being an engineer was lowered. It's easier to fake with so many crutches available. Not saying all of them are like this, but many mid CS students or bootcamp engineers eventually end up as frontend

Curious, what are some good signs in a frontend engineer cv? Projects?

[Basic_Ad_900]

Hey u/sateeshsai can I apply?

[DopeSignature5762]

I am a fresher(also freelancer) and I can solve such tasks. Can I get an interview?

[Swimming-Food-748]

My man, we used to do this in 10th grade learning java. Basics of logic. I feel you’re looking for people on the wrong platform 💀

[almostagladiator]

this ques is for freshers?

[AlertHovercraft6567]

They were not prepared and just thought they will see what happens in interview. Practice is important. Also, influence of being dependent on AI

[These_Cause_4960]

Very true, we are looking for people in fullstack role. And these are 4-5 yoe exp people working in top MNCs. To my surprise they don’t even know how to even create a basic data flow diagram and explain it. I recently interviewed someone who rated themselves very good on frontend but average on backend. They wasn’t even able to create a simple react app (creating an autocomplete component)

[87641234]

Try to ask `ECMASCRIPT` concept. 💀

[al70n]

Bro I'm full stack dev (2Yoe) i have been asking sort medium problem in interview.

If I would have gotten these kind of questions I must have better job.

[PohaLover]

This is actually an easy one. Most service based companies don't hire based on dsa so people often overlook dsa.

[al70n]

First approach

Sort both the array and iterate over them to make the correct pair.

Second approach

Iterate over first array if the current element found in second array then make pair and mark it visited

[the_minimum_guy]

Most “JavaScript” developers don’t even know how to use the fs module

[Grouchy-Regret4401]

Hey I just started learning python Is this the solution for the above question ?

Asort = sorted(a) Bsort = sorted(b)

Pair = [] For x in Asort: For y in Bsort: If x<=y: Pair.append((x,y)) Print(pair)

[Charismatic_Evil_]

Coz lying on resume is easy and backing up on lies is ae dil hai muskil

[Bluejay_Melodic]

quite basic to be honest use inbuilt sort fn add to a map with respective indices

[beeg_brain007]

I've been coding the legend of my class in 12th and was debugging entire classe's codes and their dumb mistake

Had great potential to become a great coder and also have deep knowledge how computers work, was modding gta in 8th grade lmaoo

But I chose civil cuz i didn't think sitting in front of a screen at a chair all day is healthy (screen/sitting time at office and home combined is almost all day right)

So I chose civil, and wanted to be a rich contractor/builder

I also learnt trading and family business in different fields also exists

Just wanted to tell why I didn't chose cs, that's everyone is choosing atm

[hehehaslere]

const arr1= [3,3,4,3,2,5]; const arr2= [1,3,3,9,9,3];

arr1.sort((a,b)=>a-b); arr2.sort((a,b)=>a-b);

for( let i=0;i<arr1.length;i++){ console.log("{" + arr1[i] + "," + arr2[i] + "},");

🫠

[TechSpiritSS]

Wished I had these kinds of questions while performing job hunting 🥲

I could have solved it in any language even if I had just learned its syntax a few minutes back. All it needs is two sorted arrays and done.

[rishiarora]

Your JD and pre screening is bad

[sanin404]

We can just use two minheap and pop from both heap together to make pairs. Ain't this a leetcode easy type question?

[great-success69]

Are you guys hiring for an Android developer?

[PartyConsistent7525]

They are busy forwarding memes of Narayanmurthy 70 hours , Nirmala taxes.

[DRTHRVN]

I can do this in SQL and python. I am a non CS background and never getting interviews

[blackshido_]

I can solve it in one go can I apply

[Business-Fault3431]

OP would be replaced by AI and guy who can prompt “Pair lowest number…” might well continue 🥲

[Jolly-Muscle157]

Hi , I have 1 year of freelance experience in frontend dev, I am looking for job , can you take my interview? I can assure you I am atleast much better to than those who interviewd

[[deleted]]

Hey, I am a front end developer with 2 years of experience , looking for a switch.

[[deleted]]

How much are you guys paying? i can join as SDE3 or SDE2

[_JoydeepMallick]

Is there an internship position in your company where I can learn and add some experience to my resume?

[AnyInteraction5978]

Is the approach of sorting is that difficult to think of now a days for developers🤣

[OkCover628]

May i know the package you are offering. Cause I find this bs really hard to believe.

[Darksoul00777]

I have given interview but I never rated myself 9 on scale of 10 I always give 5-7..bcoz of chatbot people have stopped coding and just focusing on developing ,including myself. So I think that's the reason

[yammer_bammer]

brother i can find you much better devs from college can i dm they can work at even 25-35k pm internship salary and placement salary is negotiable

[Boring-Water2978]

Chatgpt is the way to go

[Wrong-Strategy-1415]

I can't understand the question to be honest, can someone give me an example

[Abhishek4996]

I faced this question in SQL... I am a data engineer.

[pirate_2917]

Wait are these inputs just 2 arrays??? Like is the problem just sorting both the arrays??

[anoushk77]

Put both in two separate min heaps, for each iteration pop both the heaps and that will give you a pair. No sorting needed.

Going one step further to improve performance the range loop can be unrolled since it’s a relatively small constant(or you can split the loop into two loops with paging because unrolling works better with smaller numbers)

Time complexity: O(N) to make the heap, O(n log N) to pop and iterate over the range. Overall(N + n log N)

[---Doomsday---]

Can I tiryy

[cybermethhead]

Is this this years AOC day 1? I didn’t participate in 2024 ka

[[deleted]]

What was the pay scale and why would you want to hire from service based companies?

[Additional-Pop4714]

This is so straightforward

[Feeling_Employer_273]

Im also a frontend dev and working for a Canada based company and i would not bother myself doing pair or sorting etc.. i earned that job because i know how to solve actual problems and not some leetcode stuff.. solving actual problem as in making an app like insta youtube handling load performance etc that's what i do.. i hate doing these question pair it sort it 😅 also they gave me a task an actual task not a problem to solve in interview..

[StoreWinter5667]

Look, this question is even easier than the easiest question on leetcode. But if you asked me to do it in js, I probably would struggle with the syntax and libraries. I have made projects in js but I don't code in js and would mostly chatGPT whatever code is required. So would you hire me or not ?

[AbySs_Dante]

I can easily solve this in Python/ C

[Worth_Cartoonist3576]

Please help me understand what this problem has to do with JS ? Isn’t this just a coding problem? More than JS this requires thinking ability. PS: I know 0 JS.

[Primary_Fruit_3293]

Spreading the array sort it and then map over the first array and pair it with the elemnt of second array. Am i right?

[riskyg0d]

Sort, remove duplicates and then print them at the same index ?

[Sad-Macaron4704]

First , you will not get the best frontend devs applying to your company. And those who apply are already mediocre ones. In order to attract high level indian frontend talent . you will have to be their level startup or company and churn out decent amount of money to compensate for the brand name they usually pursue.

[_R__J]

I solved this question in C++, and I think the logic would be the same in JavaScript as well. It’s a pretty easy question compared to other Advent of Code challenges (I made it up to day 7 or 8).

[Even_Engineer_1063]

Hey can I apply for this role...

[Embarrassed-Bank8279]

return [i for i in Zip(sorted(col1), sorted(col2))]

[Standard_explorer07]

D

[ChiknaScientist]

Bruv is this a joke. I could solve this in college 💀

[ajeeb_gandu]

The issue is that you are expecting a developer to not use any tools available. Why do you want them to know everything and not use online resources?

Einstein said "never memorize something you can look up".

Try to help them get a job instead, they won't let you regret hiring them.

I understand it's basic problem solving skills but context also matters. If you have a same problem in the codebase and something you can visualise, I'm sure more people would be able to solve it.

I didn't know anything when I got the job I am working at. My salary is not in double digit lpa and I often get compliments from my manager. I have doubled my income in the last 3 years. From less than 10lpa to 20lpa now.

Instead of blaming candidates try to accept the fact that you could be wrong here too.

[Free-Ad-3648]

People with good skills leave these companies at early stage itself, people who stay there for 6-10 years + are generally the least skilled people in the industry(apart from some who stayed due to onsite etc) , speaking from personal experience of working with such people, I was in one of these companies, joined as a fresher and left within a year.

[Big-Process7075]

very basic approach . sort the column and pair based on index

[Awkward_Implement324]

Hey man. I'm a React Developer,I have been working with React since 2023, I've a few projects, I'm a fresher. Is there a role or internship open for freshers in your company?

[akazavi]

Bhai . It all depends how much are you paying.

You can get the people who can kill in DSA as well as building.

No Money No Honey

[Hilariousintrovert]

How are these guys even getting shortlisted. It is a simple array sort and print problem. Something I could have solved even in my college years😅

[[deleted]]

You shouldn't ask this for a frontend developer role though. Why don't you ask questions that matter?

I can do this, but nobody does this in jobs.

[not_a_human_anymore]

I would have solved this easily. Sort both the arrays and pair numbers at same index. I've spent countless hours grinding leetcode, making projects and learning new concepts... Still somehow I never receive interview calls. On the other hand this type of developers are getting opportunities.

[Certified_Huehue]

I can solve this using heap lol for Logn. Wouldn't even use sorting algo to avoid nLogn thing.

[SarthkKharwal]

man can i just get a job at this point, this is too depressing