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by kafkaesq 3555 days ago
They've just been reading crack-the-interview type books.

Exactly as the standard modern interview culture incentives them to do.

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Pretty much. This is where I am right now. I get off work and stop doing web development to practice data structures and algorithms because that's what intviewers want. They don't care about the actual web development experience and the questions I've been asked in all my recent interviews reflect this.

I can't wait to be done interviewing so I can go back to working on fun side projects after work.