I hate the interviews as much as anybody... but really I wish that kind of instruction had been a bigger part of my college curriculum. Yea, we had data struct

I hate the interviews as much as anybody... but really I wish that kind of instruction had been a bigger part of my college curriculum. Yea, we had data structures classes, algorithm classes - but none of them really made me good at any of them. Not like how math classes makes you good at the math, by forcing you to solve problems over and over, until it becomes nearly instinctual. I've actually become a better programmer by practicing interview problems, because they ultimately are a bit like the arithmetic involved in solving more large scale problems.