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ya its dumb, but also CTCI question 4 or something or linkedlist chapter

• ramimac 5y ago
  This is exactly the point! If they actually aren't looking for people who just cram CTCI or leetcode, coming to this answer from first principles is demonstrably far more difficult than you'd expect achieved in an interview.
• gorbachev 5y ago
  Which becomes forgotten knowledge in about 6 - 12 months time after you've last needed to apply it, depending on how often you'd have to use that information. These sort of questions have an incredible recency bias, and have zero relevance to engineering competence.
  • josephdviviano 5y ago
    I have a theory that these q's legally favor recent grads without having any explicit requirement to do so. Helps them filter for young, freshly-trained students who they can mould into whatever they like inside of the FAANG-bubble.
  • dragonwriter 5y ago
    > These sort of questions have an incredible recency bias Of course; how else do you do back-door age discrimination?