[pwny]

Completely agree. I recently had an interview where I was asked to solve a job scheduling type problem. So I see the potential graph, remember topological sort and bingo!

Right after that the interviewer told me they have a lot of code that manages assets that have priorities between each other and that this is the kind of problem they solve regularly.

It was a good question: it wasn't too hard as to take hours to solve, it was a decent test of how I was able to choose an appropriate representation for the data and it applied to a real world problem they solve.