[serge2k]

> stupid ageist algorithm games known as "technical programming interviews"

I think there are problems with the current model, but is ageism really one of them?

[potatolicious]

To a large degree yeah - performance in "stupid algorithm games" is basically perfectly inversely correlated with "years since undergrad CS courses".

[FT_intern]

It's more of "years since last studied algorithms". University algorithms classes are useless for these types of interviews for the most part when 90% of the focus is on the proofs.

Most people I know spent time studying by themselves outside of class/class material.