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I'm a Software Engineer and a teacher.
There's no feeling quite like the one you get when you watch someone's eyes light up learning something they didn't know.
That's the problem with many of these technical interviews, they seem to filter for clever solutions over clean, readable, and reusable code, which take very different skills to write.
This goal of this blog post was to help new developers acquire the skills needed to pass the interview. In real life, I would say the general rule is to optimize for developer time over processor time (depending on the situation of course), which means to write code that's easily readable and maintainable by future developers (including yourself).
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That's the problem with many of these technical interviews, they seem to filter for clever solutions over clean, readable, and reusable code, which take very different skills to write.
This goal of this blog post was to help new developers acquire the skills needed to pass the interview. In real life, I would say the general rule is to optimize for developer time over processor time (depending on the situation of course), which means to write code that's easily readable and maintainable by future developers (including yourself).