I think raw DSA has its place but shouldn't be 100% LC style: too isolated and abstract. You can probably learn more by wrapping it as a tiny 'project' note: n

I think raw DSA has its place but shouldn't be 100% LC style: too isolated and abstract. You can probably learn more by wrapping it as a tiny 'project' note: not a take home -- just a DSA/LC style 'problem' diguised inside a git repo. I'd rather see 2Sum with a Cargo.toml in a repo, seeing them scaffold this in the lang of their choice, or within an existing codebase. Justifying the full end-to-end "how is this going to be deployed and maintained", "how would you test X" is a bit more informative than "please repeat Djikstra's algorithm into the void". Of course, being good @ LC in isolation is still a proxy for (math) intelligence perhaps unpopular - but in SWE being smart isn't enough, you gotta grift, ship or hustle your way through; thinking is mostly optional.