<story><title>An Algorithm for Passing Programming Interviews (2020)</title><url>https://malisper.me/an-algorithm-for-passing-programming-interviews/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>arduinomancer</author><text>Interviews are really a dumb game these days so if you want to really game it you can go with a statistical approach:&lt;p&gt;* Practice questions by company on LeetCode, sort by frequency of last 6 months and work down the list, do maybe 75-100, the list updates once a week&lt;p&gt;* Search for the company on the LeetCode forums and sort by most recent. If a question is not on LC yet it will likely get posted there, so you can get really fresh intel.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve read of people doing this and getting like 6&amp;#x2F;6 questions they&amp;#x27;ve seen before.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>o10449366</author><text>No, if you really want to game it you sign up for membership on Chinese forums where people post the questions word for word minutes after completing the interview. That or work exclusively with private recruiters that tell you the questions verbatim because they have a vested interest in you passing.&lt;p&gt;Interview questions don&amp;#x27;t rotate that frequently, especially for smaller companies or more specialized roles, and a $60 membership for a month will buy you internal referrals and potentially land you hundreds of thousands of dollars of value in a new position.</text></comment>
<story><title>An Algorithm for Passing Programming Interviews (2020)</title><url>https://malisper.me/an-algorithm-for-passing-programming-interviews/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>arduinomancer</author><text>Interviews are really a dumb game these days so if you want to really game it you can go with a statistical approach:&lt;p&gt;* Practice questions by company on LeetCode, sort by frequency of last 6 months and work down the list, do maybe 75-100, the list updates once a week&lt;p&gt;* Search for the company on the LeetCode forums and sort by most recent. If a question is not on LC yet it will likely get posted there, so you can get really fresh intel.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve read of people doing this and getting like 6&amp;#x2F;6 questions they&amp;#x27;ve seen before.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>diehunde</author><text>Many people say this. But the reality is that solving 100 LC questions and actually understand the solution enough to solve a variation of the problem is a lot of work. Especially if you are working full-time. I wouldn&amp;#x27;t call that &amp;quot;game it&amp;quot;, just usual study and hard work.</text></comment>