Algorithms you should know before you take system design interviews

Re:Algorithms you should know before you take system design ... by GaylordTuring on Thursday August 11, 2022 @08:00PM (#32433302)

I interviewed for a company once where I got a real dataset from their business and just a vague assignment to analyze the data and find something that could be optimized better. So I came up with a suggestion on how to improve factor A, but they told me later that what they were looking for was for the candidates to come up with suggestions on how to improve factor B.

Why factor B was deemed more important than factor A wasn’t something that possibly could have been understood from the dataset alone.

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Re:Algorithms you should know before you take system design ... by drc500free on Thursday August 11, 2022 @08:52PM (#32433643)

They were just screening out unlucky people.

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Re:Algorithms you should know before you take system design ... by kvakerok on Thursday August 11, 2022 @08:56PM (#32433671)

That can be done by shuffling the resumes and dumping half of them in the garbage. Saves everyone time as well.

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Re:Algorithms you should know before you take system design ... by idiocrat on Thursday August 11, 2022 @09:20PM (#32433805)

They are applying a Leaking Bucket Algorithm.

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Re:Algorithms you should know before you take system design ... by bogomipz on Thursday August 11, 2022 @10:23PM (#32434122)

I believe most recruiters already do this.

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