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Re:The Unemployable Programmer by sargun on Monday August 03, 2015 @07:58PM (#10000767)
Why do you need to know how a HashTable works?
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Re:The Unemployable Programmer by greenyoda on Monday August 03, 2015 @08:12PM (#10000834)
So you could predict its performance and know when it's not the best data structure to use?
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Re:The Unemployable Programmer by analognoise on Tuesday August 04, 2015 @03:50AM (#10002139)
Because it's an easy canned interview question that can replace the effort to determine how a candidate thinks and see if their skills actually align with the role?
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