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Re:Ask HN: What has your work taught you that other people d... by collyw on Tuesday January 14, 2020 @03:32AM (#22042897)
The interview process is where the challenges are technical in nature. The only time I have been asked to implement a sort algorithm after university was for interviews.
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Re:Ask HN: What has your work taught you that other people d... by aliceryhl on Tuesday January 14, 2020 @06:44AM (#22043885)
Generally I find that many companies have a small amount of difficult problems. The trick is to become the person who gets to solve them when they come up.

At one of the places I worked, I got to implement a request batching algorithm using dynamic programming, at another place I got to implement a nurse rostering algorithm (this is not as easy as it sounds, and is an active research area), and at a third place I implemented the recursive tree algorithm that keeps a lookup table of user permissions up-to-date in a situation where roles inherit permissions from other roles.

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