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wly_cdgr on Nov 7, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Big Tech Coding Interview Framework – Pt 1. Inspec...

Re: different form of memory comment: ok, let me offer another analogy, do you need to spend time recalling how to implement a for loop?

No one is testing your ability to do cutting edge original CS research in these interviews. It's just basic fundamentals

Apocryphon on Nov 7, 2021 [–]

Is it in a language that one has not encountered in day to day work in a long time? Because if so, that is analogous to interviewees encountering an algorithmic problem they have not dealt with in a while.

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