I agree to a certain extent. If my short stint interviewing with various companies in the last month and a half taught me anything is this: I've been using high

I agree to a certain extent. If my short stint interviewing with various companies in the last month and a half taught me anything is this: I've been using high-level languages and frameworks for so long, that even though I don't have any problems understanding the low level implementation (pointers, in-memory word alignment/packing, etc) I still struggled somewhat when actually writing the implementation. It was a humbling experience, knowing that 20 year old me would beat my ass at writing an AVL tree. But at the same time, I can't really say I'd enjoy having to go back and rewrite my own abstract types every time. I guess I'll just try to give myself a refresher every now and then, for exercise's sake.