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Re:My startup failed, then I found out I was unemployable by joelbluminator on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @01:42PM (#26796129)
> knew their CS fundamentals like the back of their hand.

Even if they did, that doesn't necessarily mean they can shuffle an array or flip a BST under pressure on a whiteboard

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Re:My startup failed, then I found out I was unemployable by foobiekr on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @03:15PM (#26797576)
Honest to God, I think current interview practices suck and single out leetcode as particularly corrosive and demonstrating nothing about competence.

But I honestly can’t believe people are acting like reversing a binary tree is hard. This is like something you’d expect high school students with the most basic you data structures knowledge to be able to do.

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Re:My startup failed, then I found out I was unemployable by joelbluminator on Wednesday April 14, 2021 @12:09AM (#26802838)
Once you've seen the solution it looks easy, yes.
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Re:My startup failed, then I found out I was unemployable by foobiekr on Wednesday April 14, 2021 @03:27PM (#26811874)
No. Seriously no.
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