[foenix]

I've been doing python for 14+ years now. Never been asked about linked-lists, but was asked about prototypical inheritance in javascript (didn't get that job -- in retrospect, very glad i didn't). Now that I'm on the other side of the interviewing table, i always start off by saying "I think coding interviews are stressful as heck, so you should know that what I'm looking for isn't the "right" answer, it's that we both learn something. You can google your way to the right result, but it takes much more skill to implement in a team." Basically I try to turn interviews into a learning experience. With that lens, I tend to have a much better appreciation about a candidate than forcing them to pick up a marker and write a loop on a whiteboard.

Aside: Linked lists in python have a built-in deque: https://docs.python.org/3.7/library/collections.html#collect...

(I still had to google that one)