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		hodgesrm on Nov 15, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Please stop the coding challenges > You're being tested on your general intelligence, not because anybody cares about binary trees or reversing linked lists or whatever. A lot of interviewers missed that memo. They are in fact very focused on a specific algorithm or design approach. It's quite tiresome.

John_Cena on Nov 15, 2024 [–]

I've never been so deflated than after leaving a interview after bombing it and seeing the question they asked me on the front page of leetcode.

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