Well I was asked to parallelize a loop where it was totally unobvious in one interview something like a sum of elements in an array where elements are replaced by the sum of elements from the previous elements(they didnt even shake my hand they just showed me the door silently), in another I had 30 minutes to design an algo that outputs from a matrix it's spiral in C(I think I know how to do this now but I couldn't solve it and program it there under pressure in 30 minutes and my solution is ugly), in another I had to use a semaphore to make a loop that increments up to some number and I didn't know what a semaphore was, I had to find if a linked list was looping, I had to write a code that deletes duplicate elements from a linked list and puts them in to a new sorted list in 30 minutes, the financial engineering jobs required the transcript so they didn't work out. I think I like CS and blame a lack of attention or preparedness for the grades. Maybe I am deluding myself though and need to move on.
I made it no longer public if anyone reads this, it was probably a stupid idea broadcasting who I was publicly in this context because that is a sure way of shooting yourself in the foot in case an employer didn't ask about the specifics.
If this ^ link works, I excluded the sales portion. My cv is a bit embellished, the courses I barely passed were algorithms, real analysis, graph theory, number theory, and a statistics class. I couldn't follow the teacher's talking and reading was difficult. I have talked with several hedge funds in my area who shot me down, a couple startups who shot me down, and microsoft. The gpa was looked at, algorithms was the most crucial thing I missed.
Do you think Annex K of C11 will be widely adopted by programmers or unused? Why aren't people adopting it?
Do you see the use of any analysis tools that are particularly effective for finding memory safety issues?
C++ added in smart pointers to its specification. Are there any plans to do something similar in future C specifications?
Thanks!