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Re:Ask HN: How do I get $2.2M dollars? by gallerdude on Wednesday November 29, 2017 @12:01PM (#15808444)
Why data structures?
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Re:Ask HN: How do I get $2.2M dollars? by AjJi on Wednesday November 29, 2017 @12:04PM (#15808468)
To get through the interview process. Their interviews are a bunch of algorithm questions, and data structures is the starting point.
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Re:Ask HN: How do I get $2.2M dollars? by stale2002 on Wednesday November 29, 2017 @12:05PM (#15808480)
When he says "data structures" he actually means "interview questions".

Data structures and algorithms interview questions are the only thing that Google and FB care about.

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Re:Ask HN: How do I get $2.2M dollars? by pkaye on Wednesday November 29, 2017 @12:10PM (#15808545)
I can imagine an UI designer coming in for an interview. ...yeah I want you to invert a binary tree.
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Re:Ask HN: How do I get $2.2M dollars? by stale2002 on Wednesday November 29, 2017 @12:19PM (#15808663)
You joke about that, but I had a friend who interviewed for a developer Evangelist role at Google, and literally the only stuff that they were asked was algorithms questions.

Yeah, it was a 50% technical role, but Google didn't care about the OTHER 50% of the job at all...

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Re:Ask HN: How do I get $2.2M dollars? by shinryuu on Wednesday November 29, 2017 @12:05PM (#15808476)
you'll need them for the interview :P
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