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This list is very funny, straight out of the 90s, because we are in 2017 and most developers just spend their working days basically writing forms and storing/f

• bryanrasmussen 10y ago
  I don't know if most developers still do an awful lot of that. At least not for the jobs I do - I do some but it's probably less than 25% of what I do. And anyway if you have gotten the data you often need to do something with the data and sometimes that includes sorting it or other stuff.
  • invaliduser 10y ago
    Besides calling Array.sort()? When was the last time a front-end developer, or an app developer, or any developer actually, needed to implement a sort algorithm? I started programming in the 90s, so I did a lot of it, implemented sorts, btrees, tries, you name it. When was the last time I need to implement it? Honestly, it's been a very long time, around 10 years, and it was just a bloom filter in c++ because it's not very used and few libraries have it. Could I provide an implementation in an interview situation? Nope. And not interested in using my poor memory for it. If I ever need to implement a specific algorithm, say in a new language in which nobody did it before, I just need to make a search on google, take a few minutes to study it (for a sort), or hours (for more complex structures like btrees or algorithms I never used before), and use my knowledge/experience. Of course, I don't need to implement those algorithms, but I use them a lot, everywhere. That's where interview questions should focus, where and when to use them appropriately, because that's the business case.