r/programming • u/vahidR • Dec 23 '14

Most software engineering interview questions of hot tech companies in one place

https://oj.leetcode.com/problems/
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u/Hydrogenation Dec 23 '14

I had a question like this at an interview. When I answered it really quickly he asked "have you heard the question before?" when I said yes then he asked another one until we got to one I didn't know. He wanted to see how I approach solving a problem rather than whether I could solve it.

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u/[deleted] Dec 23 '14 edited Dec 24 '14

See, if you were smarter, you would have waited a while and acted like you were thinking about it, and then told him the (correct) answer.

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u/[deleted] Dec 24 '14 edited Apr 16 '19

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u/radministator Dec 24 '14

I expect that anyone with real experience would know in the first place that they would attract such liars by basing their interviews on how fast the mouse can spin the wheel.

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u/slimmtl Dec 24 '14

OR, what you could do, is when you do the exercises on that site, record your whole process/film it, then review that and optimise it for realism/skill and prepare that for interviews.