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Algorithms you should know before you take system design interviews

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Re: Algorithms you should know before you take system design interviews

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I feel that if more interviews involved this sort of algorithm instead of the ultra-niche / only situationally useful, there would be way less opposition and much more signal.

At work, I have written and then used a bunch of these in production, just for the narrow scope of things I work on. Might be indicative of me being in a bubble though.

Please, ask me to make a bloom filter or show how consistent hashing enables sharding! I'll pass on yet another "Implement String.reverse()"

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