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In my team I need someone like you to deliver features, not someone that can leetcode. I don't remember the last time I had to check an algorithm in Wikipedia. Probably 2-3 years ago.

Most of the time it will be debugging some arcane crap or adding to an existing codebase, anyway.

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Algorithms are funny this way. Most of the time you don't need them, but when you do (and if you don't, you can't tell it when), it is a world of difference.

Still, just knowing they exist and how to formulate the search is usually enough.

100% this. I have "The Art of Computer Programming" on my book shelf, and I think I had to pull it out 2-3 times over the course of _years_.

I am sure one was a reference in the golang source code. And I once wanted to check multi-way merge sorts (tournament sort).

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