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Re:I interviewed at six top companies in Silicon Valley in s... by RHSeeger on Friday January 18, 2019 @03:53PM (#18942965)
> Finally, I realized my brain needs more time than the average programmer to find patterns in this type of problems.

I'm the same way. I'm really good a identifying solutions to a problem. I'm really good at identifying the costs/benefits/issues with each of the problems. However, I take a while to get there. I may figure out one (suboptimal) solution quickly, but it takes me a while to pick out a variety of them and identify the one I think is the right one for the current situation.

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Re:I interviewed at six top companies in Silicon Valley in s... by spiritcat on Friday January 18, 2019 @04:01PM (#18943031)
Story of my life, watching everyone else quickly come up with the wrong answers. :P

In school would usually (ok, often) get highest score, but took the longest to finish.

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Re:I interviewed at six top companies in Silicon Valley in s... by GoodJokes on Friday January 18, 2019 @04:04PM (#18943068)
yea, speed is very overrated in a lot of cases. Too bad big companies don’t understand this or refuse to admit it.
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