[vonmoltke]

> 1) If you know what a DAG is and how to use it, you can most likely implement and traverse one in way less than an hour.

I know what it is and how to use it. I can implement and traverse one. I seriously doubt I could do it in an hour, especially if I don't have at least standard library documentation available.

[Ar-Curunir]

Whiteboard code interviews don't require you to flesh out such things in any great detail; they're intended as proxies for your thinking process.

[vonmoltke]

You should tell that to some of my whiteboard coding interviewers, then. Plus, I feel that many of the interviewers who claim to be interested in though process still have a "right" way in mind and will dock interviewees for not approaching a problem the way they would.

Anyway, the post I was replying to said, " you can most likely implement and traverse one in way less than an hour" (emphasis mine). That statement has nothing to do with thought processes. To me, that requires "flesh[ing] out such things in any great detail".