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> 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 p
by 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.