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hard to write heap sort in functional style with immutable collections. I guess you could write imperative style code.
by dominotw 8y ago
hard to write heap sort in functional style with immutable collections. I guess you could write imperative style code.
- sk5t 8y agoWell, ah... unless you're applying at Amalgamated SortCo Industries, asking for on-the-spot sorting implementation is pretty high on the list of absurd interview questions. Anyway I'd think one might use an array and not some other list/collection.
- bm1362 8y agoI used clojure once during an interview and bombed, passed again 2 years later at the same company with Python. Would’ve made a big difference in my equity had I just started then!
- dominotw 8y agoYea functional langs just get in the way during interviews. I can write same imperative code i write in java in scala but it just makes it harder( eg: remember to use var instead of val, mutable collections vs default mutable ect) at which point I am just better off practicing for interviews in java.