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That's enough for passing familiarity with what the algorithms are / pointers to reference material when appropriate. Not nearly enough to perform on command fr
by closeparen 6y ago
That's enough for passing familiarity with what the algorithms are / pointers to reference material when appropriate. Not nearly enough to perform on command from memory in 20-40 minutes.
- 908B64B197 6y agoI mean, If someone knows he's interviewing at a place where there will be a coding interview, he would be crazy not to take a look at his algorithm textbook. And maybe if the course only only gave the candidate a passing familiarity it wasn't thorough enough?
- closeparen 6y agoAt the end of Princeton's Algorithms I-II on Coursera you've done fewer than 20 implementations, and those were open-book assignments with week-long deadlines. A reasonable interview prep cycle would be closer to 200 practice problems, under time pressure.
- tester756 6y ago>he would be crazy not to take a look at his algorithm textbook. Why? what's wrong with going "purely" into interview?