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Re:Whiteboard interviews are a test of obedience, not intell... by tikhonj on Monday June 03, 2024 @06:58PM (#40568664)
I haven't done any Leetcode so I have no idea of what "medium"/"hard"/etc are, but the last time I interviewed, the two problems I failed were very fiddly dynamic programming problems—the hard part was not even the dynamic programming, but rather the problem-specific setup (based on chess rules and geometry, respectively).

I am sure I would have done better at those with practice, entirely because I would have seen lots more fiddly dynamic programming problems and not because I would have picked up any general-purpose skills or knowledge I don't have as-is.

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