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It's a tragedy of our industry that this super FUN list of basic algo problems, is connected in everyone's mind to lame-ass whiteboard interviews. These proble
by khazhoux 10y ago
It's a tragedy of our industry that this super FUN list of basic algo problems, is connected in everyone's mind to lame-ass whiteboard interviews. These problems should be like playing scales: engineers should just work through these, practice them till they're no-brainers. But not to land that sweet entry-level SWE job at Google, but just to grease your own wheels in day-to-day coding and problem-solving.
- acheron 10y agoI've never been to an interview that would ask this kind of crap, and would be very surprised if a future interview did. So yeah, I'm just looking at it as a list of possibly interesting problems, which makes it a way better link than "interview help".
- lkozma 10y agoI agree -- in addition, such problems can also be seen as a springboard into research - tweak any of them or ask if you can prove that the solution is optimal, and you are quickly in the realm of open questions.
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