Op means that if they followed Norvig’s advice they wouldn’t be hired by Google, because they’d be studying actual programming instead of rehearsing Leetcode for interviews.

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Sesse__ 4 days ago | parent | next [-]

As someone who's been hired by Google twice, I'm very happy that I spent 99% of my time actually programming. (I did a day or two of Leetcode before the second time, just to make sure I was appropriately calibrated. It didn't exist before the first time.)

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shric 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I don’t know what interviewing at Google is like now but I interviewed for Google in 2008 (no offer) and 2012 (offer) and the questions on both occasions were not of the nature that leetcode could have helped with much.

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begueradj 4 days ago | parent | prev [-]

You are right. Thank you.

On the other hand, mastery through 10 years of practice means and leads to a good knowledge of data structures and algorithms.

	▲	TheCowboy 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		I don't think it necessarily leads to a of mastery of data structures and algorithms in the context of leetcode/modern coding interviews. One can do a lot of coding, and even be paid for it, for years and just not even encounter a lot of this material. Though one will have developed much of the same intuition that you typically acquire in a data structures class, it doesn't necessarily mean you're prepared to code mergesort on a whiteboard.