The Best Interview Advice You Never Got (from ex-Amazon Principal Engineer)

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Top 'Secretly Easy' Hard Problems:
#1million : Reverse Nodes in k-Group - Score: 0.034
#2: Median of Two Sorted Arrays - Score: 0.0298
#3: N-Queens II - Score: 0.0288
#4: N-Queens - Score: 0.0255
#5: Robot Room Cleaner - Score: 0.0192

Top 'Most Efficient for Interview Prep' Hard Problems:
#1: Longest Increasing Path in a Matrix - Score: 1.8094
#2: Trapping Rain Water - Score: 1.6964
#3: The Skyline Problem - Score: 1.5794
#4: Word Break II - Score: 1.5601
#5: Smallest Range Covering Elements from K Lists - Score: 1.1687

Hardest Questions Actually Used in FAANG Interviews:
#1: Partition Array Into Two Arrays to Minimize Sum Difference - Score: 12.3924
#2: Regular Expression Matching - Score: 12.1070
#3: Reverse Pairs - Score: 9.0915
#4: Median of Two Sorted Arrays - Score: 8.2952
#5: Max Points on a Line - Score: 8.0952

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