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by CoastalCoder 806 days ago
I've done a lot of interviewing lately, and I've encountered two kinds of efficiency-related questions:

(1) By far the more common: giving a big-O analysis of some algorithm's running-time complexity.

(2) For performance-optimization roles: questions about using cache effectively, or take-home programming assignments in C++ or CUDA.