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I actually thought 1 hour seemed pretty reasonable. > has a good basic grasp of CS and algorithms? Maybe they want to see if someone has more than a "good bas

• mindcrime 11y ago
  Then I'd posit that they're probably wasting their time unless they're VERY specific in the requirements they publish in their job ads. CS is too big for anybody to be an expert in everything. If you want a graph specialist, or a machine learning specialist, or a filesystem specialist, then sure, go really deep. But my feeling is that most of the time, these companies aren't hiring for highly specialized roles and there's no point probing "is this candidate at an advanced level on graph algorithms" when the answer might be "no, but she's an expert on optimization algorithms and numerical computing" instead.