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As an interviewer at one of these companies, I try really hard to only ask questions that people will not have seen before. I agree that if you're asking a ques
by jefftk 6y ago
As an interviewer at one of these companies, I try really hard to only ask questions that people will not have seen before. I agree that if you're asking a question which some of your audience has heard and some hasn't, that's terrible for the interviewee, but it's also terrible for the company.
- treis 6y agoBut you can't really. There's what? Hundreds or thousands of these tests happen everyday. It's impossible for each one of them to be unique. They're all just variations on maybe a few dozen to a couple hundred core questions.
- jefftk 6y agoAll design-algorithms-code questions are variations on a few dozen to a couple hundred core questions? In a way that regular programming is not?
- treis 6y agoFor most programming very little time is spent on actually implementing algorithms. It's more about designing and organizing your code and data. Few people are sitting down for 8 hours a day and banging out leet code style algorithms.