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The following content requires a score of 200 or higher. You can already view it. To be honest, this was the most difficult interview I've ever seen. Although I prepared in advance, I still didn't pas

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The following content requires a score of 200 or higher. You can already view it. To be honest, this was the most difficult interview I've ever seen. Although I prepared in advance, I still didn't pass the test case perfectly because the coding logic was indeed complex. Relying solely on printing in an unfamiliar debugging environment was very slow. The question was one that had been posted online, so I won't go into details. Basically, it was pattern matching, using a Trie + fallback pointer. It's quite difficult to solve it perfectly in one hour. I was probably missing two or three test cases, and the bugs were all very simple. After the interview, I rested for a few minutes and then looked at my code again, finding the bugs in less than 3 minutes and passing all the tests (the interviewer even allowed me to copy my code). So, under pressure, it's difficult to perform well in debugging when bugs appear. But I passed in the end. I guess my communication and execution were generally considered good. At least I passed the knowledge points and verbally described the algorithm. The interviewer probably knew that solving this problem perfectly in one hour was difficult... Interviews are tough, please give me some points. Thanks.

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