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Re:Don’t do interviews, do discussions by wiseowise on Monday November 08, 2021 @02:52AM (#29146951)
> Because the most common say to day issue is needing to think of an algorithm on the spot...

Are you trolling? Everything that you do as an engineer is coming up with an algorithm.

Algorithm is how you solve a problem, how you think about constraints and requirements.

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Re:Don’t do interviews, do discussions by Philip-J-Fry on Monday November 08, 2021 @03:31AM (#29147194)
You're being pedantic. You know what I mean.

There's plenty of algorithms I know and I can see relevant business contexts to use them in. Do I know all of their implementations off the top of my head to regurgitate onto a whiteboard? No, because I don't need to. When the time comes I will just look that up. The easy part is the implementation. This isn't a school exam testing your memory.

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Re:Don’t do interviews, do discussions by wiseowise on Monday November 08, 2021 @04:02AM (#29147378)
When was the last time somebody asked you to implement some text book algorithm?

All the FAANG interviews I had were about some leetcode problem where you had to be familiar and use some algorithm, not write it from scratch.

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