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Yeah, I consider the demand for people to talk out loud during algorithms interviews to be an anti-pattern. It is something I can do (albeit with some difficulty) and excel at interviews as a result but I know engineers who are great at algorithms and at normal design communication who fail interviews because the interviewer doesn’t like their frequent silence while thinking or coding.


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