Ask HN: How can I prepare for a coding interview in a week?

Re:Ask HN: How can I prepare for a coding interview in a week? by bsaul on Tuesday August 14, 2018 @05:37AM (#17756493)

Weight lifting doesn’t have any direct use for any sport ( excpet weight lifting), and yet they do it pretty much in every preparation. Brain is a muscle, so showing that your brain is able to manipulate some moderately complex algorithms is always a good thing.

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Re:Ask HN: How can I prepare for a coding interview in a week? by gaius on Tuesday August 14, 2018 @06:44AM (#17756745)

Do tryouts for the 100m team involve benchpressing? Nope.

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Re:Ask HN: How can I prepare for a coding interview in a week? by otras on Tuesday August 14, 2018 @04:56PM (#17761812)

Interestingly, the American Football NFL Scouting Combine, which can be thought of as roughly a tryout for the NFL draft, involves a test in which athletes must benchpress a set amount of weight (225lbs == ~102kg) as many times as possible [0]. Whether or not this is a good test for athleticism and performance in the NFL is very much debatable, but it is one area in which they're evaluated.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NFL_Scouting_Combine#Bench_pre...

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Re:Ask HN: How can I prepare for a coding interview in a week? by gaius on Tuesday August 14, 2018 @05:38PM (#17762145)

Probably a reasonable test in a sport that requires a lot of pushing. Same reason the military like press-ups.

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Re:Ask HN: How can I prepare for a coding interview in a week? by scns on Tuesday August 14, 2018 @06:33AM (#17756694)

Sprinters do Deadlifts to increase their strength. Makes them run faster.

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