I once got into an argument with a senior technical interviewer because he wanted a quick solution of an in-memory sort of an unbounded set of log files. Needl

I once got into an argument with a senior technical interviewer because he wanted a quick solution of an in-memory sort of an unbounded set of log files. Needless to say I wasn't recommended for the job, and it taught me a valuable lesson: if you don't first give them what they want, you can't give them what they actually need.