[rfrey]

>This is sad and a little surprising to me.

I think dynamic programming is in fashion because of the rise of reinforcement learning among the buzzword savvy.

[throwawaymath]

To my recollection, dynamic programming problems were fasionable interview questions prior to the current wave of machine learning. That's to say I'm pretty sure they were being asked at Google/Facebook/etc around 2012 at least, likely earlier.

[gaogao]

At the FANG I'm at, DP is now heavily discouraged with a note that it was once a very common interview topic.

[YorkshireSeason]

What are you encouraged to do with the problems of recursion that DP addresses, stack overflow and overlapping instances?

[chillee]

I really doubt it. The type of reasoning needed for dynamic programming interview problems is barely connected to DP in reinforcement learning.

[mehrdadn]

DP is most definitely not in fashion because of reinforcement learning. It's been pretty standard since long before the ML buzz.