Jeff Dean, MapReduce Inventor, Asks 'What Is DSA Hard?'
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A screenshot of a Twitter/X thread in dark mode. Jeff Dean (verified, @JeffDean) explains the origin of MapReduce: while rewriting Google's search indexing pipeline, the team realized many phases were 'conceptually simple but required large scale processing (extract link text from each page, identify language for...' with a 'Show more' link; the tweet shows 13 replies, 44 retweets, 946 likes, 41K views. Vishnu Vivekanand (@vishnuvivek87) replies: 'Genuine question, Jeff. How much of DSA hard (to be solved in under 15 mins) help you build this?' Jeff Dean responds simply: 'What is DSA hard?' The humor lies in the legendary Google engineer who built planet-scale systems being completely unfamiliar with leetcode-style interview jargon, exposing the disconnect between competitive interview prep culture and actual systems engineering
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The man who invented MapReduce has never heard of 'DSA hard' - turns out building the thing the interview questions are about doesn't require passing the interview
He mapped the web and reduced petabytes; naturally, the next benchmark is reversing a linked list in fifteen minutes.
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But fr, what is DSA and why's it hard? Comment deleted
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Everybody asks "What is DSA Hard?", nobody ever asks "Who got DSA hard?" Comment deleted
What is DSA Hard? Comment deleted
do you have a DSA hard in your pants or are you just happy to see me? Comment deleted
Dsa stands for data structure and algorithms right? Isn't that just what all programming is? Comment deleted
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so it is leetcode-speak Comment deleted
apparently there is some data struct and alg lvl with "Hard" difficulty and that have to be solved under 15 min Comment deleted
You get taken out by the leetcode strike team Comment deleted
idk don't ask me. the concept of retriable task with time limit baffles me too, but so does the rest of the leetcode, and they somehow still in business Comment deleted
Thats a nice sarcasm. 2nd guy probably references standart hiring tests, which for google included math, dsa etc. etc. Comment deleted
a daily reminder to keep grinding your leetcodes Comment deleted
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