Skip to content

Comment on I interviewed Max Howell, the creator of Homebrew

Comments

Was he able to solve the binary tree question this time?

LOL! He did talk a lot about his programming backstory (played with BASIC as a kid, no formal training, chemistry major, discovering Linux) and how this informed his worldview. Bottom-line, he is very results-driven and I think he has a good point about how a lot of tech interviews screen too much for theory and not practice. Turns out you don't need to know how to invert a binary tree to build the most successful package manager of all time :)

most successful package manager of all time

[citation needed]

AboutSource Built by g1lg1l

Hackerly is an independent reader for Hacker News, built on the public HN API. Not affiliated with Y Combinator.