[Apreche]

Despite having almost two decades of experience they asked me the kinds of questions that only someone who recently aced a CS theory class could answer. The kinds of things that do not matter at all to the job.

I didn’t even bother. I just said I didn’t know the answer, and that them asking those kinds of questions made me not want to work there.

I guess that counts as bombing, but I really could not have cared less.

[dubcee349]

Do you have an example or two?

[Apreche]

IIRC they wanted to know the efficiency of different algorithms like big O notation stuff. Maybe it would be understandable if we were doing high performance real time programming in C. The job was writing HTTP APIs. I aced all the HTTP and SQL questions.

[rgoulter]

I've given the "(I know the answer but) this is a dumb question" in response to "using two stacks, how would you implement a queue".

I think being able to implement a queue using two stacks is kinda neat. But, nevertheless, it's not a good interview question.