How to Crack the Toughest Coding Interviews

Re:How to Crack the Toughest Coding Interviews by softbuilder on Friday October 26, 2012 @06:26PM (#4704553)

>And programmers are asked to program

Programmers are almost never asked to program. They are asked to solve 50-year old CS problems on a whiteboard.

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Re:How to Crack the Toughest Coding Interviews by icelancer on Friday October 26, 2012 @08:14PM (#4704839)

Alright. Let's assume we have this guy, we'll call him a... oh, I dunno, a salesperson. And there are all these cities he must visit to sell his wares. BUT, oh-ho, there's a catch! Let me tell you how many times he can visit each city...

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Re:How to Crack the Toughest Coding Interviews by dspeyer on Friday October 26, 2012 @10:24PM (#4705113)

At Google, at least, we try to make up new questions frequently and retire old ones.

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Re:How to Crack the Toughest Coding Interviews by Evbn on Saturday October 27, 2012 @12:08AM (#4705322)

There aren't enough problem in the world for that to be possible, ignoring extremely superficial differences.

It always comes down to exercises from CLR lightly dressed up.

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Re:How to Crack the Toughest Coding Interviews by theootz on Saturday October 27, 2012 @03:04AM (#4705620)

Sorry, but what's CLR?

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Re:How to Crack the Toughest Coding Interviews by cagey on Saturday October 27, 2012 @11:49AM (#4706374)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Introduction_to_Algorithms

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