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by iiiggglll 3544 days ago
> I've never met someone who was extremely good at these questions who turned out to be a dud after hiring.

I have. More than once I've brought on folks who aced algorithm questions but turned out couldn't handle complex business logic. They could basically only understand code that fit on a page / screenful. Anything beyond that and they floundered.