> written a popular developer tool for the Mac > did not know what a binary tree was, did not know what recursion was Maybe he was just bad at memorizing his

> written a popular developer tool for the Mac > did not know what a binary tree was, did not know what recursion was Maybe he was just bad at memorizing his terms? I could program and use recursion long before I knew what it was called. A lot of what I know today was learned very quickly on the job. Perhaps that's not the type of person you were looking for, but I do know good hackers / developers that are bad with terms. >I am much more interested in how the candidate reasons about the code, not whether they can write two or three lines of correct code on a board, or type them into a computer. This is a balanced view to have and you seem like a much more reasonable interviewer than a few I've had in the past.