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These kind of tests are rarely about seeing if an applicant can actually successfully solve the issue. It is about seeing how the applicant approaches a difficult problem.

Maybe google, amazon and whatnot see that differently but I would not personally wanna work there anyway.

That's what they tell you… They also tell you it's pseudocode, and then proceed to interrupt you if you forgot a ";".

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