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> So it’s all people who spent lots of time studying for algos and data structures class asking each other those same questions. Asking “Are you one of us?”

In my experience, there's a point where it becomes 100% cargo-culting/rote.

The best approach is to keep the coding (it's essential to be able to write code on the whiteboard, period) and have some elements of algorithmic reasoning but focus on using those to solve a real problem.