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Somewhat related to your experience, does anyone else feel that the present interviewing scene is a lot more focused on algorithms rather than data structures?
by abhijat 5y ago
Somewhat related to your experience, does anyone else feel that the present interviewing scene is a lot more focused on algorithms rather than data structures?
Many leetcode questions rely on very specific tricks like using a fast and a slow pointer, or two pointers at opposite ends of a sequence.
So one might know about many different types of self balancing trees and which ones are best to implement a database index on disk, but these things do not come up very often in leetcode style interviews, although these are quite real problems in the realm of algorithms and data structures.
To be fair though I do not know how you can test this kind of knowledge in an interview.