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by facepalm 3400 days ago
Somehow I still don't buy that dhh would fail to implement Bubble Sort.
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30 years in the business, just recently failed a screen coding test call because I blanked on find string pairs question. Just couldn't think for a minute. During the normal day, look it up, slap head and go on.
There are edge cases that are easy to forget about even if you have the general idea. This article is about binary search, not bubble sort, but it has a lot of the same problems. https://reprog.wordpress.com/2010/04/21/binary-search-redux-...
this. maybe he would need to be reminded which sort it is, but he could do it. unless the white board interviewer expected perfect syntax in a particular language.

which, I agree that is usually always silly