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If you want to get good at something, practice that thing. It sounds like you're asking how to get good at coding interviews. So practice coding interview questions, not logic prob…

> the group that's unwilling to put up with this is unqualified Companies that get a lot of applicants care more about false positives than false negatives. So they're fine not hir…

That has been done as well: https://codeforces.com/blog/entry/94353

This looks like a duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21892189 . I answered there.

Here's a curated list of resources that a lot of people refer to: https://github.com/lnishan/awesome-competitive-programming But really, the way to get started is just to pick a si…

Most people who are doing competitive programming aren't good at the harder problems. For example, there are >2500 people listed on the TopCoder Top Ranked Algorithm Competitors pa…

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10270014

Solving programming puzzles (or competitive programming) is a good basis for a deliberate practice plan. There are a lot of sites that provide puzzles of increasing difficulty. So …

Gayle Laakmann McDowell has a good Quora answer on the pros and cons of tech inteviews: http://www.quora.com/Why-are-programmers-in-the-software-eng... It's worth reading the whole…

You need a certain amount of programming puzzle skill to get past the interview process at most tech companies. Competitive programming is a good way to practice this skill, but yo…