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Re:I interviewed at six top companies in Silicon Valley in s... by Vel0cityX on Friday January 18, 2019 @09:51PM (#18945025)
Except you don't need to have them _memorized_. You shouldn't. That's not the point.
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Re:I interviewed at six top companies in Silicon Valley in s... by ec109685 on Friday January 18, 2019 @11:10PM (#18945275)
But given it is straightforward to memorize, it isn’t a good test.
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Re:I interviewed at six top companies in Silicon Valley in s... by Datsundere on Saturday January 19, 2019 @11:13AM (#18947678)
Except all of these questions can be grouped into a category of the same kinds of problem and it is in fact spending time to find out that pattern and which category from sliding window, nested intervals, recursion and dynamic programming it belongs to
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Re:I interviewed at six top companies in Silicon Valley in s... by TrinaryWorksToo on Saturday January 19, 2019 @11:27PM (#18951076)
If you memorize them you appear more competent
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