Which is fine because something like searching through a million strings is very much an actual problem that would be faced on-the-job -- usually the spec is al

Which is fine because something like searching through a million strings is very much an actual problem that would be faced on-the-job -- usually the spec is already written and handed to you by your manager -- and we can all agree that being able to recall obscure syntactical knowledge or invert a binary tree are things that, while commonly asked in whiteboard interviews, aren't something an actual software engineer would ever be faced with in their daily work.