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by eksemplar 2921 days ago
I haven’t programmed much since I stepped into management 15 years ago, and while I’m not sure I could do still do Dijkstra I can still do all those silly text-book examples on a whiteboard if you gave me the business logic. From x-sort to linked lists and trees.

If they don’t give you the business logic, then you’ll need to practice, practice, practice, but you honestly should be able of reasoning you through a piece of businesslogic and turning it into pseudo code.

Aside from that, it’s a terrible test for hiring people exactly because you, can, memorize it through practice. But American hiring processes are funny like that.