Algorithms interviews: theory vs. practice https://danluu.com/algorithms-interviews/ …
Thoughtful post as always, but I don’t agree with the premise that “algorithms questions are important to big companies because *fancy algorithms* are important there”.
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It’s pretty easy to come up with “not bad” algorithms questions, which lets question banks be large, which means memorization matters less.
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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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Algorithms questions (especially simple-ish ones) translate well across languages, so that candidates aren’t tested on language trivia and interviewers don’t have to be experts in every language (or carefully matched).
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They enable a discussion of tradeoffs, which, I’d say, is what engineers spend most of their time doing.
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