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		username90 on May 19, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How necessary are the programming fundamentals? Interviews almost never require fancy algorithms, just the super basic ones that you learn in the first course in college.

username90 on May 19, 2021 [–]

I've seen a ton of interviews at Google, none of them required fancy algorithms. They did require you to take some fundamental algorithm and change it up a bit, but the end result wasn't fancy algorithms just basic ones with a twist.

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