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Re:My friends who cheated in interviews are getting promoted by ghostbrainalpha on Wednesday May 10, 2023 @11:59AM (#35889248)
> c) (the best one) memorize everything from leetcode style solutions and definitions to mathematics MCQs.

Couldn't it be argued that memorizing leetcode solutions IS NOT cheating? Seems like it would be better to understand things at a fundamental level, but its still proof of ability to master the problem in and takes a lot of effort.

Especially if the person was upfront about the fact they could solve the problem but still didn't understand everything about it.

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Re:My friends who cheated in interviews are getting promoted by pythonb3sss on Wednesday May 10, 2023 @12:04PM (#35889336)
The problem was that he was terrible at problem solving. He failed at simple logical problems like flattening a nested json array, cleaning data before running operations on it, etc. And probing further on his memorized answers, he couldn't explain anything. He'd just repeat the same thing but change voice of the sentence (active/passive)
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