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Re:Ask HN: What to do about ‘Good at programming Bad at Leet... by bulldog13 on Friday May 20, 2022 @07:36PM (#31453906)
Memorizing is meant in a different context.

Ultimately the problems boil down into a few "types". So you are memorizing the types.

https://dev.to/fahimulhaq/14-patterns-to-ace-any-coding-inte... https://neetcode.io/

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Re:Ask HN: What to do about ‘Good at programming Bad at Leet... by curiousllama on Saturday May 21, 2022 @12:09PM (#31459100)
As a sidenote: this holds true for other types of arbitrary-interview-riddles. There's only 3-5 "frameworks" you need to memorize/apply for consulting case interviews. Finance probability problems typically test one of ~a dozen prob/stat formulae + ability to multiply 3-digit numbers in your head.

After all, it has to be manageable for the interviewers to make sure all the questions are roughly equivalent in difficulty.

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