Timeline for How important is it for a programmer to know how to implement a QuickSort/MergeSort algorithm from memory?
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| Oct 9, 2012 at 20:17 | comment | added | Larry Gritz | I used to think asking people to program on interviews was silly, but you just wouldn't believe the number of people with seemingly fantastic resumes and who answer the "social" questions with flying colors, but who, for the life of them, cannot jot down a correct implementation of 'strcat' or some other simple function. Several times this has saved me from hiring somebody who, if it had not been for the silly coding question, could have caused endless grief and dragged the team down with incompetence. | |
| Oct 7, 2012 at 2:35 | history | answered | DeveloperDon | CC BY-SA 3.0 |