> hash map, I just use tries That's how I messed up my <big-company>-Luxembourg-office interview many years ago. At least, that's one way, out of the possibly

> hash map, I just use tries That's how I messed up my <big-company>-Luxembourg-office interview many years ago. At least, that's one way, out of the possibly many ways I messed up. The interviewer asked what was in retrospect a trivial question whose obvious and straightforward solution involved using a hash table, but me being clever proposed a ridiculous solution involving tries. Didn't get the job :)