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by PublicEnemy111 4196 days ago
Reciting CLRS is not useful. Knowing why a greedy algorithm like Dijkstra's is optimal can be both beautiful and insightful. A fundamental understanding of these algorithms and data structures only add tools to an engineers arsenal. Of course, code should be the medium through which the interviewee expresses these to make sure she/he is not simply a mathemetician