I think they make for poor evaluations, though understanding the underlying performance characteristics and limitations of common data structures and algorithms can certainly be important. That said, you'll probably need to get at least somewhat comfortable with these sorts of problems if you want to interview successfully. FWIW, the last time I was on the job hunt, I found it quicker and more helpful to use a... - Source: Hacker News / 8 months ago

This. Do not try and do the problems from scratch. All you will end up doing is frustrating yourself for hours and taking far longer to get through the material than you need to. You wouldn't do this in any other field e.g you wouldn't jump into a Linear Algebra textbook with no prior experience and expect to be able to solve all of the problems without first reading the chapters. Don't expect to be able to do... - Source: Hacker News / 10 months ago

However, there's websites and resources like algo.monster which is a paid resource. Anyone, who has used algo monster, can they guide if it's the right path to go down on? Source: about 1 year ago

I'm using algo.monster and finding it very good for review /discovering problem-solving patterns when approaching popular interview topics. Source: over 1 year ago

Many. educative.io (grokking the coding interview) Algo.monster. Source: almost 2 years ago

Marco Arment (Overcast) and David Smith (slew of apps) would argue differently https://marco.org/apps http://david-smith.org/apps. - Source: Hacker News / almost 2 years ago