[codexon]

breezed through after I tipped her off on the coding questions

I probably botched an interview where they expected me to come up with an RB tree fast enough (it was a company that has posted on HN).

Tipping people off to questions is cheating the test, so you have some people trying to temporarily bulk memorize algorithms that they'll forget in another month before an interview. Does anyone else not find this stupid?

[rhizome]

Did you ask them when the last time was that they had to use an RB tree in their software?

[codexon]

No and I doubt they would have hired me because I asked a snarky question.