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Academia is not like the real world:

If you’re reading the rest of this, you know that your resume isn’t the primary way to get job interviews, so don’t spend huge amount of efforts optimizing something that you either have sufficiently optimized already (since you’ll get the same amount of interviews at 3.96 as you will at 3.8) or that you don’t need at all (since you’ll get job interviews because you’re competent at asking the right people to have coffee with you).

Array Stack / Queue Hashset / Hashmap / Hashtable / Dictionary Tree / binary tree Heap Graph

Think data structures.

Sorting (plus searching / binary search) Divide-and-conquer Dynamic programming / memoization Greediness Recursion Algorithms associated with a specific data structure (which brings us to our fourth suggestion…)