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by david-gpu 588 days ago
> I had an interview recently where I solved the algorithm question very quickly, but didn't refactor/clean up my code perfectly and was rejected.

It sounds like they intentionally present a simple problem because they are not filtering by who can solve it, but by who writes clean maintainable code.

I wish I had thought of that when I was interviewing candidates, because it is a good criterium for a well established organization.