[PRL] Computer science `education'

[Joe Marshall]

On Nov 9, 2007 1:32 PM, Carl Eastlund <cce at ccs.neu.edu> wrote:

> My brother works for Google and has told me his own horror stories
> from interviewing job candidates.  Your guy is way above the "horror"
> bar compared to what I've heard.

My favorite was one guy who was asked to write code that does a
depth first traversal of a binary tree.  He started with the basic data
structure:

 class Node {
    int value;
    Node parent;
  }

Things went downhill from there.


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~jrm