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Re:Guido van Rossum joins Microsoft by closeparen on Thursday November 12, 2020 @02:58PM (#25074155)
That's enough for passing familiarity with what the algorithms are / pointers to reference material when appropriate. Not nearly enough to perform on command from memory in 20-40 minutes.
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Re:Guido van Rossum joins Microsoft by 908B64B197 on Thursday November 12, 2020 @05:42PM (#25076227)
I mean,

If someone knows he's interviewing at a place where there will be a coding interview, he would be crazy not to take a look at his algorithm textbook.

And maybe if the course only only gave the candidate a passing familiarity it wasn't thorough enough?

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Re:Guido van Rossum joins Microsoft by closeparen on Thursday November 12, 2020 @05:59PM (#25076407)
At the end of Princeton's Algorithms I-II on Coursera you've done fewer than 20 implementations, and those were open-book assignments with week-long deadlines.

A reasonable interview prep cycle would be closer to 200 practice problems, under time pressure.

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Re:Guido van Rossum joins Microsoft by tester756 on Thursday November 12, 2020 @09:12PM (#25078043)
>he would be crazy not to take a look at his algorithm textbook.

Why? what's wrong with going "purely" into interview?

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