Best Programming Language For Coding Interviews?

What's the best programming language for coding interviews? You might not like my answer 😊

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[pablojavier]

My man acting like he’s gonna say the most controversial thing

[sweminzaw]

assembly. if you write in assembly you wont get embarrased because ur code was not good because 99% of the time the interviewer wont know assembly (learn RISC-V assembly just incase)

[ashishkarnkarnashish]

Use C++. Especially while giving interview for a role that requires high level languages. The interviewers generally are out of touch with low level languages so most likely they ask you to explain the code which creates a discussion rather than a "I ask you, you answer me" scenario. And you impress them by showing your low level language skills.

[anaszeidan]

Him: Use the language you most comfortable with.
Thank you for your advise, I was planning to wake up the day of the interview and learn a completely new language

[edz]

I think most languages are identical when it comes to the most fundamental units of computation. I don't think they're evaluating you ability to use a library or package in an interview. they wanna know if you can use for/while/if and arrays and to what extent you can problem solve with them

[letronix]

I was in a situation where the interviewer asked me to make a simple math program in any language I wanted. I thought about this too and ended up with Rust, because I was just good at it.

[herrforehead]

C, my first language, just comfortable enough to not fuck up

[jensenraylight]

Choose whatever language that your interviewer are clueless in.

[HikaruAkitsuki]

Actually, they are not asking how you gonna code to solve the question but rather how you gonna execute it.

[AdventMoxy]

Like writing with stick symbols, it can get the job done but not optimally

[Zondac]

I think first I'd start by asking if i can focus on logic rather than syntax and write it out in some custom pseudocode, where i explain what each thing does, that way you can take features that are simple in some languages and implement them, like if you need strong types, explain the types are strong, if you need pointers, explain your own pointer system, if you need type range definitions, explain how you'd use those, if you need classes, explain your own class syntax. That way you can show an understanding covering the features of multiple languages to accomplish your task despite of the language being written not really existing.

[realcontentgamer]

Personally I would choose C# over programming languages that I learnt.

[OghamTheBold]

At my interview they only asked - How do you speed up SQL queries? After 2 months they terminated me coughing with pneumonia — nearly died in ICU — bosses got $100, 000s of furlough payments each

[Heheh]

Agreed but whatever reason people give for hate for python like it is very slow bla bla its the best and every body knows that.

[couldbejake]

With a strictly typed language your IDE will help you if you get stuck

[toomuchpoop]

If you have 2-3 months it actually makes sense to switch to python. If you use something like java you are writing unnecessary code in front of interviewer.

[nathaenwanta]

C++ was my first language, and is my best now!

[es_zyg]

Yeah I think I would choose java or c++ they're good tho

[nojukuramu]

If interviewer asked me that, i would say all the Languages i know and ill emphasize the one that i know most

[JM-fzct]

Used Java at an NVIDIA interview this year since it was what I sued for the past 3 years. Bombed it because the coding challenge site we used provided no import support.