Interviewer thought that an array and linked list were the same thing

cache locality is a crutch

>>106007777
Checked

>>106007770 (OP)
java?

>>106007781
Language agnostic question

>>106007770 (OP)
Never happened
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>>106007770 (OP)
i went through a giant stack of resumes to get to 10 to phone screen. 0/10 knew this difference and 1/10 could talk me through how binary search works.
its bleak out there. wtf are universities doing?

>>106008206
>now why would these people applying to the job not be aware of the things that have nothing to do with the job
gee i don't know. if that's what you're asking instead of industry specific questions it makes me wonder if you even know how to do your own job or if you're just asking generic jeet level questions because there is nothing else in your head other than the shit you learned a decade ago in school

>>106008386
its testing if you know literally the first thing about the fiels

>>106008961
yeah you know what now that i read your comment again i retract my previous statement

>>106008961
Outside of high school assignments I never once had to implement binary search instead of just using an existing library.
If I got asked trivia questions like this I'd walk out.

>>106008206
You're probably going for fagman business boys who did 20 internships. The cracked ones are the losers. Remember that.