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by bcp2384 2549 days ago
Why are DP problems so popular for interviews? I am doing leetcode now and they seem to be everywhere.
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walrus1066 2549 days ago
I'd honestly just walk out if a company asks this stuff, yet the actual work is maintaining a CRUD app.
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chii 2549 days ago
they are a very good judge of whether the programmer can do complex problems (but still simple enough a solution to do in an interview setting).
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