A decade ago everyone was absolutely doing data structures and algorithms in interviews, and had been doing so for long enough that Cracking the Coding Intervie

A decade ago everyone was absolutely doing data structures and algorithms in interviews, and had been doing so for long enough that Cracking the Coding Interview had already been out for two years (along with Steve Yegge's post on prepping for interviews: http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/03/get-that-job-at-google.html http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/03/get-that-job-at-goog...). I'm not sure what time period you meant to reference?