Algorithms interviews: theory vs. practice https://danluu.com/algorithms-interviews/ …
I think algorithms filters can't be that good or Centaur couldn't have had the most productive engineers I've worked with while not having an algorithms filter at all. I would agree that algorithms questions can attempt to filter for useful qualities, but
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IMO they have a very high false positive and false negative rate and I think that there are more important things to filter for, e.g., what
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I definitely didn’t mean to imply that algorithms questions are “good”, period. I just wanted to give advantages other than “we need people to actually write fancy algorithms”.
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