Data structures and Algorithms are fun, but more and more I see that general software engineering is something we need. Several useful questions venture too de

Data structures and Algorithms are fun, but more and more I see that general software engineering is something we need. Several useful questions venture too deeply into domain specific things, making them difficult to give to candidates. For example: * Make a simple memory allocator. * Make a simple HTTP Proxy * Make a simple URL parser * Make a simple CSV parser * Make a threadsafe Queue * Design a class to handle exponential backoff None of these are particularly useful, but I think they can let a candidate show off how they can handle a simple problem, and how they modify their code as the problem grows in complexity. Sadly, most of these questions candidates have no familiarity with. I would much rather see it than more O() analysis.