Well it is a specialized problem. If you've never worked on anything similar previously, it is going to take time. Don't even need to interview for selective billion dollar companies like Anthropic to encounter these types of problems - after college I interviewed for various electronics/hardware companies where you'd get asked to optimize low-level code - which would have looked quite foreign, if you had never actually worked on such problems before.

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Onavo 3 hours ago | parent [-]

If you ask an EE to debug react state management code without prior exposure they won't do too well either. But on the other hand they can easily pick up most of it after a week long crash course while training a performance engineer who can optimize code for a specific architecture would take months.

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ignoramous 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> EE to debug react state management ... easily pick up most of it after a week long crash course while training a performance engineer ... would take months

Isn't that mostly because as you go up the abstraction layer, tools and docs to teach yourself the tricks of trade fast are in abundance (let alone a popular layer like React)? Which inturn is likely a function of incentives and opportunities.

	▲	fny 34 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		It's because the higher up the stack you go, tools become more declarative and literate. Calling sort is far easier than understanding the algorithm for example.