This...ain’t it chief. You won’t pass HC if you don’t at minimum solve the problem at all. And max flow is a nontrivial algorithm, more so than any of the ones

This...ain’t it chief. You won’t pass HC if you don’t at minimum solve the problem at all. And max flow is a nontrivial algorithm, more so than any of the ones I’ve ever known people to get. You have to have pretty amazing natural talent to be able to get it cold without much studying. I think it’s a shame that there doesn’t seem to be a middle ground opinion between the elitist “you mean you don’t know about Ford Fulkerson without studying?” and the anti intellectual “all coding interviews are just luck and not a good signal”...