A lot of programming involves design and structure. Whiteboard interviews are biased towards algorithms involving problems that are typically trivial solved wit

A lot of programming involves design and structure. Whiteboard interviews are biased towards algorithms involving problems that are typically trivial solved with library functions like sort. A whiteboard interviewer typically finds some type of "library" problem, gives it a little twist and throws it at a senior programmer who's been doing design and structure for years. The candidate out of school, meanwhile, recently took an algorithms course. So for the older candidate to keep up with the younger one the older one actually has to go and study stuff UNRELATED to work. I find it strange that you can be older than the Parent poster but not realize this fact.