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> it is actually difficult to work through something that you I am the answer to but forgot how you got the answer Well, yeah. That's a big part of the point o
by darkerside 4y ago
> it is actually difficult to work through something that you I am the answer to but forgot how you got the answer
Well, yeah. That's a big part of the point of the question. Anybody can Google the answer. Do you understand it well enough to explain it, and if you don't, can you walk through your thought process as you figure it out.
- seanmcdirmid 4y agoI failed to practice answering questions that I already knew the answer to. I also think the interviewers style had something to do with putting me off balance (it became adversarial after I pointed out this was just alien dictionary, I probably would have had a better result pretending not to have seen the problem before). Or maybe that’s just how things are at Amazon? My Google and Facebook interviews went much better in comparison. None of their questions were top ten LeetCode ones.
- albedoa 4y ago> I failed to practice answering questions that I already knew the answer to. You failed for the same reason you would have failed if you had never heard the problem before. Knowing the answer has nothing to do with why you were dinged.
- seanmcdirmid 4y agoThe interviewer turned really adversarial when I told her this was a common LeetCode problem. I guess you really had to have been there. Alien dictionary isn’t that hard otherwise, if I were allowed to work through it rather than explaining how it worked, things would have gone much better.