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One thing I found out from interviewing a lot (for junior-ish positions) was that dynamic programming questions are actually your friend. Since it's a "hard topic" they give you a relatively easy one that can be solved using brute force recursion with memoization slapped on top so it takes like 5-10 mins and looks super impressive.


But for which companies?

For some reason I doubt that would work for the Big4+Unicorn interviews - then again, I've never gotten a DP problem from those companies.




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