An example application of algorithms and data structures in the software industry
A very common question among people new or about to enter the software industry is where and how are algorithms and data structures used. Software development is mostly about applying known algorithms to a particular problem domain and tweaking it with some data structure either to fit the input space or to make some particular performance improvement due to some specificity of the problem domain. Below is one such example from the domain of workplace analytics. Let’s take the example of workplace analytics, a new domain where organizations are using data to find out what perks work, what attributes contribute more to employee satisfaction and performance. One example is Google finding out, based on data, that new mothers had a very high attrition rate, and Google increased the maternity leave by two months and it reduced the attrition in new mothers by 50%. Similarly, some sales focused organizations have found using workplace analytics tools, that employees not the ones wor...