+1 so many CS graduate interviews involve these sorts of questions, where, just like many CS exams, the people who can memorise the answers just reel them off a

+1 so many CS graduate interviews involve these sorts of questions, where, just like many CS exams, the people who can memorise the answers just reel them off as they're usually from a subset of about 20 problems. I know a fair few terrible programmers on £40k+ (GBP) jobs straight out of school, because they memorised this subset of problems.