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Re:Google Tech Dev Guide by m0zg on Wednesday December 19, 2018 @12:40AM (#18713334)
That's not the point. I just automatically assumed a subsequence problem will involve DP. I only know this because I studied for interviews in the past, not because I ever had to solve a subsequence problem at work, and I've done some _very_ advanced stuff.

I posit that ability to solve such problems is completely irrelevant to one's job performance, at Google or anywhere else. Google's own test of this hypothesis (hiring a control group of people irrespective of their interview scores) seems to bear it out.

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Re:Google Tech Dev Guide by SamReidHughes on Wednesday December 19, 2018 @07:47AM (#18715221)
The point is you are claiming that people need to study up a month for a Google interview. My point is that there are many people who do not need to study up for a month, or at all. They walk in, get asked some fun little data structures problems, and solve them.

This idea that some people like to push, that these interviews are all about memorization, is a false one.

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Re:Google Tech Dev Guide by webmaven on Wednesday December 19, 2018 @08:51AM (#18715553)
> Google's own test of this hypothesis (hiring a control group of people irrespective of their interview scores) seems to bear it out.

Link?

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