#!process neo scholars interview

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mellow pumice
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wtf

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alr

jagged phoenix
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Goat

mellow pumice
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should i apply?

mossy trail
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honestly can't hurt

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most annoying part is the 2 references

mellow pumice
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they took a few from my school

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bruh

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@mossy trail

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its ICF ...

mossy trail
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icf isnt bad tbh, just really annoying and coinflippy

mellow pumice
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i hated that shit

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for ramp

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bruh

mossy trail
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😭

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bro gaps me

mellow pumice
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im so ass

mossy trail
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@mellow pumice

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congrats on gapping me

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i used to genuinely struggle with icf so much, then someone told me the real trick to ace it, from then on i never struggled with it again

mellow pumice
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cooked

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😭

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atlaest u got their oa

mellow pumice
mossy trail
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basically, i used to constantly fail icf because i'd:

  1. try to hyper-optimize the time complexity of everything, so i'd have to do things like store the info in multiple different containers, do convoluted stuff with data structures, etc

and 2) try to follow good coding practices by modularizing everything, creating separate classes and doing things as "cleanly" as possible, etc. this ended up screwing me over both due to time, and because memory management became a huge pain

mossy trail
# mellow pumice drop da sauce

so one day someone told me that ICF doesn't actually give you any real test cases, it's just small cases like the ones in the unit tests

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like you could do O(n^2) or O(n^3) stuff and easily be fine

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so basically their advice was just to code up everything without worrying about time complexity or doing it cleanly

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once i took that advice i've scored 600 on every ICF

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yeah

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not just not optimize for it, literally disregard it entirely lol

jagged phoenix
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holy shit goated advice

mossy trail
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you might even get away with exponential time or smth

mellow pumice
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400 - 600 in 2 days

mossy trail
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you can

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literally bruteforce everything

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hashmap spam + bruteforce everything that needs you to process/filter/sort the data

mellow pumice
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when in doubt

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hashmap

mossy trail
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dont bother with sorted sets for efficient operations and all that

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basically, yeah lol

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and dont make any other classes

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literally just store everything inside class they give you

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you usually end up with 3-4 data structures i think

leaden tangle
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Goated, I trolled twice on that Dropbox oa, hated that shi

jagged phoenix
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💀

mossy trail
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oh yeah ive heard stripe oa was like a mini icf with much more boilerplate lol

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i didnt get stripe OA though

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ngmi

jagged phoenix
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i didnt pass

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even though my test cases passed

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prob bc of my implementation quality

tribal rose
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Too cracked

mellow pumice
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Bruh

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How did y’all get Dropbox oa …

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Am I that ass

jagged phoenix
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wasnt it auto

mellow pumice
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Nah

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💀

jagged phoenix
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@mellow pumice are u also zon

ancient hatch
crude coyote
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Holy shit which college

mellow pumice
crude coyote
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Man this aint fair

mossy trail
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algo and takehome

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i got algo

mossy trail
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they choose one of the options you put

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hmm yeah byteboard does seem cooked because it's heavily based on style as well

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they have human evaluators judge your code quality, whereas for ICF if you pass the tests you just pass

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wait wdym pass

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full score?

winged fox
winged fox
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how’s 550

meager narwhal
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are there any auto oas that give ICF open rn

gusty palm
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@mossy trail u moved on to next round with a 600?

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or by process interview are u just referring to taking the neo pre screen