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by theptrk 2900 days ago
I’m super interested in creating an intensely detailed mind map of what you need to answer these tech interviews.

I always hear that the interview process is broken and we need a new system etc but I would imagine we’d want our new coworkers to know how to create an array, and maybe create pointers to it and maybe adjust pointers based on a condition and given an arbitrary algo be able to apply the above skills to a particular set of conditions. And I’ve always wondered how much better it would be if there was some type of consistent grading to these interviews. Anyway if that’s something you’re interested in exploring I’d be happy to chat.

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iMindMap is a pretty good software. I am using it to build mindmap for iOS interviews. I am also thinking of creating algo related one in future. There seems to be around 50-60ish main patterns in coding problems that are being repeated in almost all of the problems i've seen so far. If you can learn those you can use them as lego bricks to build your solutions. Interview problems have obvious constraints of time, whiteboard space and difficulty. If you master problems that fall within those constraints you can pass any interview.
I can’t really help much, but would be interested in such a map.
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