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Re:Live coding interviews measure stress, not coding skills by ericbarrett on Friday August 01, 2025 @12:20PM (#44758961)
I once got asked to write a Levenshtein edit distance calculator for a “15 minute” SRE phone screen
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Re:Live coding interviews measure stress, not coding skills by Sohcahtoa82 on Friday August 01, 2025 @01:28PM (#44759739)
I'm not sure I could write that even with a full day.

Even if I did, the solution would probably end up running in O(n!) time.

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