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What the interview was really testing

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The heart of a coding interview was never the code. It was to see how someone solves a problem without all of the inputs handed to them, and how they explain their thinking as they go. AI changed what missing inputs means, because anyone can paste a puzzle into a chatbot. The skill underneath did n…

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