[zerr]

Nothing to do with the actual job but it is heavily used for interviews to get that actual job, unfortunately.

[sundvor]

This is my understanding as well. Data structures and basic algo comes up in interviews, and if you pass that's probably the last of it too.

I never studied them originally, but once I realised it was a blocker to getting a new job I spent some time to learn the basics at least which truly helped a lot. It was also a bit of fun, to be honest - even though they have almost no bearing on the day to day work.

So I'm interested in this book as it's a remarkably concise list of related things to learn.

[zerr]

Besides basics, I've learned and forgot several times, so I don't have enough motivation nor time to re-learn again :)

[sundvor]

I read you. It's funny how it blocked a couple of jobs, and it only took me a few hours to learn enough to pass the basics. I understand the need to filter, but still believe it's a crappy way of doing it.