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I have gotten to where is someone asks me to do a linked list or recursive tree search I just end the interview right there. Ask me their strengths or why a bal
by stjohnswarts 5y ago
I have gotten to where is someone asks me to do a linked list or recursive tree search I just end the interview right there. Ask me their strengths or why a balanced tree is useful, awesome. It's fine I hope they have find the right candidate, but as an embedded person I haven't had to write those in decades and if I need to I'll look it up. Sorry I don't have everything a CS grad has fresh in his mind or something that you write daily but most of us don't
- jlokier 5y agoI find that surprising. When I'm doing embedded work, explicit linked lists are common. Usually in C, sometimes in assembly language. sometimes even electronics on an FPGA. In many of my projects, rustling up a specialised list or tree based data structure comes up as a side effect of optimising performance, which is often required on smaller devices.