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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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Several interesting algorithms, but why a picture of a table instead of a table?

Another question, does anyone know any good curated resource that mention system design use cases of each data structure and algorithm?

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

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This is kind of crap listicle. From the title to the content, it's just bad. A system design interview doesn't ask you algorithms. They're basically block diagrams. They're often the interview with the highest variance, because a successful one requires the interviewer to ask not only a fair question (e.g. isn't niche to their current job), but also recognize when a solution works, but isn't their implementation. Thi…

> A good interviewer will recognize that you memorized the answer, and ask a different question until you don't know it. Only then, will the interview be useful.

100%. You want to get to the boundary of the candidate's knowledge as quickly as possible.

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