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		PeterisP on Aug 18, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Tech Interview Handbook Sure, the structure is obvious; one was an issue of a method being named differently than I remembered, the other was an off-by-one error that'd show up in testing.

new299 on Aug 18, 2019 [–]

So, it wasn’t obvious to many candidates I interviewed. For example, one candidate tried to create a solution involving 3 nested for loops.

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