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It depends. It's better to get a candidate unstuck with a few hints and then not give them a perfect score, than just staring at them while they struggle then crash and burn and panic. Sometime a little hint is all it takes, and then you get to see a great solution you didn't expect, or awesome code, and the candidate still passes the bar - while not in flying colors.

Those add up pretty fast if you're doing full on-site days. A couple of years ago I interviewed for two FAANGs. Along with phone screens, on site, and a couple of supplementary interviews, and then team selection interviews, it easily got to 18 or so. And that was just two companies.

Sundar Pichai does not make a quarter billion per year in salary, almost all of it is in stonks.

I like you too.

Hey, I just wanted to say thank you for Interview Cake in general. Your approach of unravelling the solution gradually really helped me think about these problems.

While it wasn't my only resource, it helped me a lot interviewing for Facebook and Google recently, and I got offers from both.

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