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Why data structures?

• AjJi 9y ago
  To get through the interview process. Their interviews are a bunch of algorithm questions, and data structures is the starting point.
• shinryuu 9y ago
  you'll need them for the interview :P
• stale2002 9y ago
  When he says "data structures" he actually means "interview questions". Data structures and algorithms interview questions are the only thing that Google and FB care about.
  • pkaye 9y ago
    I can imagine an UI designer coming in for an interview. ...yeah I want you to invert a binary tree.
    • stale2002 9y ago
      You joke about that, but I had a friend who interviewed for a developer Evangelist role at Google, and literally the only stuff that they were asked was algorithms questions. Yeah, it was a 50% technical role, but Google didn't care about the OTHER 50% of the job at all...