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Screwing up the technical interview - common mistakes

• Jabbles 14y ago
  An interesting read - though I wonder (like many people) how useful being able to rattle off a linked list implementation is, given that there will almost certainly be a library version available. If the few minutes that it took to read this article is actually going to help people in an interview, then perhaps the interview method is wrong.
  • Evbn 14y ago
    It is just an example of a dead simple 10-line programming task to verify that someone knows the language syntax, conditional, iteration or recursion, and references/pointers. Posing a complex domain-specific unsolved (or else it would be in a library!) problem that requires using library functions just wastes time and adds clutter to a quick coiding sanity check.