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by 908B64B197 1459 days ago
For college hires it's also something they know everyone will have studied (algo and data structures) no matter where they are from.

There's a common vocabulary and it doesn't matter where someone went to school, binary trees are the same at Stanford, IIT or some regional unknown school. And the textbook they used were probably the same as well!