Algorithms Interviews: Theory vs. Practice

> a friend of mine once got a Google Code Jam World Finals question in a phone interview with Google (...) I doubt there were more than a few hundred people in the world who would've gotten the right answer to the question in a phone screen and almost all of them probably would've realized that it was an absurd phone screen question Link to the question: https://code.google.com/codejam/contest/2437491/dashboard#s=... The gist of it is: You are given 4*N points on a…

I have definitely seen senior developers put quadratic and even exponential algorithms into production and cause global outages. Code review didn't help, because their code was reviewed by other people who were interviewed to the same low standard. I continue to insist on algorithm & data structure interviews for software engineer candidates. Not every project needs them as much, but in large enough institutions, every engineer is likely to run into at least one project that does. If they can't…

What's even more interesting is the new meta-game around interviews. Algorithmic questions started with Microsoft, who wanted to make sure engineering hires could... program! The point was to make it as language agnostic as possible and friendly to college hires (since everyone who did a serious CS program did algorithms, there was a common vocabulary). You weren't even meant to study intensively for these, just brush up on your algo class. But now I keep seeing guides on the internet…

what is this site http://go/easy-perf author refers to? can't find it anywhere