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I agree with the sentiment that the algorithms and data structure coding interview practices are a terrible measure of a software engineer candidate. There's so many other factors that make a good software engineer and to dismiss a candidate because they can't solve a single problem on the fly is wrong.

In my experience, I've never got an offer after bombing the coding portion of an interview even though I shined in system design and behavioral interview rounds.



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