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Sony Mathew said...

Graphs and problem solving questions in general make for an excellent interview by themselves don't you think? Having candidates use various data-structures like Lists, Trees, HashMaps to solve such problems should be sufficient to gauge their skills.

Remembering exactly how every data-structure object or sorting method is implemented seems no-more relevant than knowing how an object and its methods turn into byte-code instructions. Abstraction layers exist so as to focus on solving higher order problems. Only if a problem is suspected in an abstraction layer would one need to dig deeper - a good problem solver would do so without hesitation.

Mar 20, 2008, 6:43:00 PM

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