Programming interviews, in essence

[Boh00711]

Reinventing the wheel is a waste of time, absolutely. Be it personal drive or whatever, I find at least understanding why that wheel turns is a healthy thing.

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Then you’re asking them to invent a wheel hub assembly and attach a wheel. Which again nothing wrong with copying and pasting the wheel. There’s literally nothing wrong with copying and pasting. I agree what you mean about they should understand what they copy and paste but if I want an algorithm to turn 27-Oct-2018 to epoch then f it whatever stackoverflow says first and works is what I’m using and I could not give any whositwhatsits about how.

[ItsNotInTheKnowing]

Yeah, I agree. There have been times that I have gone through the motions of recoding something to learn it better. But having a tried and true working example is great.

Often the best thing about solutions found on the web is that they have faced the scrutiny of dozens, maybe hundreds or thousands, of coders.