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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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