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Re:An Algorithm for Passing Programming Interviews (2020) by smus on Sunday January 02, 2022 @11:58PM (#29777498)
> If they pushed me hard enough at the start, I would tell them and then fail them on the algorithms/reasoning component of the interview.

I agreed with you up until this point, which seems unnecessarily harsh to me

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Re:An Algorithm for Passing Programming Interviews (2020) by strstr on Monday January 03, 2022 @03:20AM (#29778516)
There’s more to an interview than algorithms (e.g. coding, communication), so it’s not a death sentence.

In the hundred or so interviews I’ve given, I’ve never had a candidate persist in forcing questions along these lines from the very start, even after I have turned the question back around at them. If you force me to give you hints out of the gate, something very weird is going on.

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