I am not sure why people bring up the homebrew author's case to justify the argument that "leetcode question = bad intervew question". I mean, I hate many of th

I am not sure why people bring up the homebrew author's case to justify the argument that "leetcode question = bad intervew question". I mean, I hate many of those leetcode puzzles, but "inverting a binary tree" is not one of them. IMO, this particular question is a good one. It is a simple manipulation on a simple data structure. I think at least a good programmer can probably discuss with the interviewer, take some hints, and write _something_? Instead, that tweet gives me a feeling that he didn't like the question and refused to think at all. Everyone knows that Google asks tricky algorithm questions, did he expect to get some special treatment because he created homebrew? Homebrew is popular, and is indeed a very successful project, it is just not very well designed. Let me quote the author's own words: > https://www.quora.com/Whats-the-logic-behind-Google-rejecting-Max-Howell-the-author-of-Homebrew-for-not-being-able-to-invert-a-binary-tree/answer/Max-Howell https://www.quora.com/Whats-the-logic-behind-Google-rejectin... > I wrote a simple package manager. Anyone could write one. And in fact mine is pretty bad. It doesn't do dependency management properly. It doesn’t handle edge case behavior well. It isn’t well tested. It’s shit frankly. > Is it any surprise I couldn’t answer their heavily computer-science questions well? > On the other hand, my software was insanely successful. Why is that? Well the answer is not in the realm of computer science. I have always had a user-experience focus to my software. Homebrew cares about the user.