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An Algorithm for Passing Programming Interviews (2020)

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Re: An Algorithm for Passing Programming Interviews (2020)

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Interviews are really a dumb game these days so if you want to really game it you can go with a statistical approach: * Practice questions by company on LeetCode, sort by frequency of last 6 months and work down the list, do maybe 75-100, the list updates once a week * Search for the company on the LeetCode forums and sort by most recent. If a question is not on LC yet it will likely get posted there, so you can get…

No, if you really want to game it you sign up for membership on Chinese forums where people post the questions word for word minutes after completing the interview. That or work exclusively with private recruiters that tell you the questions verbatim because they have a vested interest in you passing. Interview questions don't rotate that frequently, especially for smaller companies or more specialized roles, and a $…

@o10449366 what is the $60 website you mentioned?

Re: An Algorithm for Passing Programming Interviews (2020)

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

>second-raters to grind their stats so sayeth the people on the outside of companies building the most complex software in the world.

That wasn't really a dig, but I should have said jr. devs instead of second-raters.

couch it however you want but you're deluded if you think your projects stack up against even a BS grad at FAANG if you're discounting their abilities just because they got in through grinding LC.
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