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Well they are supposed to be confessions yet he does not confess the worst part of what he witnessed. IIRC he literally says "I'll tell you everything" then proceeds to leave things out. Somewhat contradictory.

I get that but it doesn't even make sense in terms of the dream logic. Bill basically has two "confession" scenes - one with Zeigler and one with his wife and seemingly doesn't mention the stuff at the costume shop in either. However he was open to confess to Zeigler that he knew about the dead woman. This seems contradictory. I think there are two possibilities 1) it was unfinished or 2) it was intentionally left out. Both of which are very interesting.

What I never understood about this movie is how it never connected the pieces. The beginning of the movie when bill was with the drunk women and they say "where the rainbow ends..." it clearly connects to the "rainbow" costume shop later where the sinister stuff with the owners child happens. Then it's learned that the women at the beginning of the movie were the same women who were at the secret society party this clearly connects the secret society to the sinister stuff at the costume shop. So the connections are clear and bill is privy to all of it yet it is never explicitly stated at the end of the movie. Perhaps Kubrick didn't actually finish it.

People generally use leetcode to prepare for interviews and learning is kind of a side-effect so I'm curious are these questions similar to those you would find in interviews (i.e. like leetcode) or is it more for general learning purposes?

In my experience, most things in large companies are social constructs. Good things are good because they were decided to be good, bad things are bad because they were decided to be bad. Very rarely are they driven by actual metrics.

I did something very similar to this, except I would say I did learn something. It felt like studying by looking up the answers - not the best way to study but if you look up the answers to enough questions you are bound to learn something by osmosis.

I building a web app around a tool I originally built for myself for interview prep. It basically lets you generate interview questions then practice them in a leetcode-like interface that includes an AI tutor chat ui. The tutor is aware of the question and the user's attempt at a solution so far and is instructed to give hints rather than simply providing the user with the answer. I personally use it as well. https://hinterviewgpt.com