Screwing up the technical interview - common mistakes

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An interesting read - though I wonder (like many people) how useful being able to rattle off a linked list implementation is, given that there will almost certainly be a library version available.

If the few minutes that it took to read this article is actually going to help people in an interview, then perhaps the interview method is wrong.

It is just an example of a dead simple 10-line programming task to verify that someone knows the language syntax, conditional, iteration or recursion, and references/pointers.

Posing a complex domain-specific unsolved (or else it would be in a library!) problem that requires using library functions just wastes time and adds clutter to a quick coiding sanity check.

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