The Importance Of Learning DSA

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The Importance Of Learning DSA

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When your dating standards are literally higher than your company's hiring bar. She's out here rejecting people for not knowing Big O notation while HR is hiring folks who think recursion is a medical condition. The tech interview culture has rotted our brains so thoroughly that we're now gatekeeping relationships based on whether someone can reverse a binary tree on a whiteboard. Imagine explaining to your therapist that you left someone because they couldn't implement quicksort from memory. "Sorry babe, you're great and all, but I need someone who understands amortized time complexity for... reasons?" The real kicker? Most of us spend our actual jobs googling "how to sort array" and copying Stack Overflow answers, but sure, DSA knowledge is the foundation of true love.

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