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> If you've seen the question/answer before just say so!

I did that once at FAANG interview, instead of honesty credits I felt like the interviewer just got annoyed by having to come up with another question.




I recently interviewed with a startup. They had "outsourced" the first round to a 3rd party firm that specializes in taking tech interviews (Mostly Algorithm rounds).

The interviewer posted an LC question and asked me to read it. Since I was already logged into my LC account, he first asked me to show if I had solved it. I said I did. He then posted 9-10 LC questions one by one, all of which I had solved (I was doing LC regularly then). In the end he got tired, and posted a question from another website (Hackerearth) which I hadn't solved. We ended up taking ~5 minutes just going through different LC questions and he was disappointed that I had solved all of them.

I have also faced situations where I have seen an LC question that I solved but couldn't solve it in an interview setting, mostly because of the pressure.


Unfortunately goal of interviews these days is to know what you don’t know, instead of what you know




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