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Re:Lessons from 3,000 technical interviews by joshvm on Wednesday December 28, 2016 @05:05PM (#13274081)
The conclusion is a bit obvious: if you ask people algorithms questions, the people who do the best will be people who spent a lot of time rote learning algorithms material. This means schools which place a lot of emphasis on the theoretical core or people who've taken online algorithms courses.

I'd be much more interested to see performance on other questions e.g. Google's typical curveball for new grads is an architecture question like "How would you implement YouTube?".

Re:Lessons from 3,000 technical interviews by drd93 on Wednesday December 28, 2016 @06:12PM (#13274495)
These are not curveballs though. Nowadays it's just another category of interview questions - System Design. There are tons of resources to prepare for this type of questions just like with the Algorithms & Data Structures problems.