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0 pointspeferron6y ago0 comments

> expecting people to spend 6 months on preparation for interviews considered normal or totally acceptable

You're expected to be able to solve a certain set of problems. Whether you don't prepare at all, spend 6 months, or spend 6 years is up to you. Oh, and everything you need to prep is available in cheap books and websites.

That's immensely superior to being required to spend 5 years and thousands of dollars in college to get the degree that nobody will hire you without, like some industries do.

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fsniper6y ago

Please look around, here you can find hundreds or thousands of people probably never used advanced algorithms for their lifetime except once or twice for their interviews. And you can see some who uses these daily who never implement them out of their heads but with intuition, preparation, effort, books and research. Oh and don't get me started that they all are compansated for.

Which type do you think these interview methods are optimized for?

These methods are waste of money, time, brains for both parties.

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