[sssilver]

This is what I don't understand. During technical interviews, why don't we just give the potential employee a laptop and ask them to solve the problem as they would during a regular work day? Why can't they search Stack Overflow, and perhaps reach out to a friend or even a random person on IRC for advice? Isn't this how the real life works? They may not know anything about min heaps, but perhaps a 15 minute research will help them solve the problem better than anyone who actually memorized Cracking the Software Interview by heart? Isn't it better to measure discipline and ability to learn and solve problems instead of measuring existing knowledge?