Did we all read the same article? He complains about "algorithmic interviews", the comments here are about AVL trees and sorting algorithms, but what he was ac

Did we all read the same article? He complains about "algorithmic interviews", the comments here are about AVL trees and sorting algorithms, but what he was actually asked to write was "a string parsing implementation". Well, OK, I suppose it's possible they tried to get him to write yacc, but it sounds much more like they asked him to do some trivial loops and tree traversal, at the very most some basic recursive descent parsing. This ain't rocket science, it's not complex O(n) analysis, it's only slightly above the fizzbuzz level. If you're writing code at all then I think it's reasonable expect you to understand recursion and loops, even if much of the job is just going to be hooking up jquery plugins.