petelevinea

Exact same thing happened to me. I went last April and just now got it all "fixed". I ended up negotiating with the hospital, the contracting company for the hospital's ER department, and my insurance on the phone at the same time to reduce the cost to what the contracting company's ER doctor on staff would normally bill the insurance company and paid that out of pocket.

I guess you have to ask if the doctor who may or may not see you depending on what you're in for also takes your insurance? I don't even know.

I agree, especially when designing programming languages that it's a bit weird to not know how to traverse a tree.

There is one thing I want to point out though. Before starting my algorithms course I knew how to solve problems recursively. I had done project euler tasks and what not. I just never knew the words abstract syntax tree or binary search tree. I could guess what they were prior to the course but I didn't know what they were off the top of my head.

Do you think that it's possible that a self taught engineer would know how to solve these problems given time and enough questions to the interviewer? Maybe get frustrated with "How do you balance a search tree?" questions under pressure?