> I've even caught it literally writing the wrong algorithm when asked to implement a specific and well known algorithm Happened to me as well. Wanted it to qu

> I've even caught it literally writing the wrong algorithm when asked to implement a specific and well known algorithm Happened to me as well. Wanted it to quickly write an algorithm for standard deviation over a stream of data, which is a text-book algorithm. It did it almost right, but messed up the final formula and the code gave wrong answers. Weird, considering some correct codes exist for that problem in Wikipedia.