> He solved hard algorithm problems like they were nothing That's mostly practice. When I did webdev I was really shitty at algorithms because there were no al

> He solved hard algorithm problems like they were nothing That's mostly practice. When I did webdev I was really shitty at algorithms because there were no algorithms in my daily work. When I did some Baduk AI programming I started being much better at algorithms since I was implementing some custom algorithms myself. If you are interviewing someone for a web dev position, it's kind of ridiculous to screen people by their ability of merging sorted arrays or whatnot.