[alkonaut]

So much this. Knowing how to refine a search and how to guess phrases that will occur in the correct page (which sequence of words to quote and which not to quote) is at least as important as anything else like data structures.

I’d much rather have someone find the best page showing a specific tree algorithm, than describing it on a white board.

Bonus points if the searching test requires knowing the termninology. Having a broad-but-shallow set of knowledge is a key skill for developers in general, for this reason (information finding).

E.g knowing that a bounded cache can be a “LRU cache” will help you find information or implementations.