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You rarely need to write your own sort or hashmap, but you should absolutely understand at a high level how those algorithms work, how to analyze them, and the
by sagarm 6y ago
You rarely need to write your own sort or hashmap, but you should absolutely understand at a high level how those algorithms work, how to analyze them, and the key concepts that go into their design.
The point of the undergrad CS syllabus is not to teach you specific algorithms, but to give you a toolkit for solving problems. The goal of a SWE interview should be to test your ability to apply that toolkit to a "new" problem.
- balls187 6y agoAmazon asked me to implement a hashtable and email the interviewer the solution by the next morning. I politely declined; was heading off to Spain for a long weekend.