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Re:Do We Worship Complexity? by anyfoo on Tuesday October 16, 2018 @09:46PM (#18235083)
They were interviewing for Google. It's not uncommon to have to implement a standard library function (or not be able to use one) in many contexts at Google. Besides, the question is just the most basic setup to assess how a candidate would fare in comparable situations.
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Re:Do We Worship Complexity? by gaius on Wednesday October 17, 2018 @03:36AM (#18236955)
They were interviewing for Google.

99% of developers at Google are doing commodity work. It is are practically IBM or HP now.

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Re:Do We Worship Complexity? by XorNot on Wednesday October 17, 2018 @02:50AM (#18236723)
Is it though? Because the answer to "suddenly I need to implement a standard library" is "I google the accepted solutions" and if I don't have Google then I goto the library and check out a bunch of old CS books.
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Re:Do We Worship Complexity? by ummonk on Wednesday October 17, 2018 @11:39AM (#18240106)
And then the interviewer's follow-up question should be "fine, since you don't want to indulge me and implement a solution to this toy problem, I'll ask you to implement a much more complicated function which doesn't exist in any library!"
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