> After talking for a bit about pretty much all of the above, the interviewer asked "have you used dictionaries?"
Hahaha classic.
I was once in an interview (which I failed) and was asked a problem related to some sort of monotonic queue. I wrote the solution and was going through it, when the interviewer asked: 'what CS concept are you using in this solution'? I didn't really understand what he was asking for and in turn I asked for more clarification like 'Are you referring to the data structures I used? Or the technique (it was some sort of greedy)?' 'no'. After a couple of back-and-forth questions and answers, he finally tells me he was looking for me to say 'a state machine'. Seriously?
Hahaha classic.
I was once in an interview (which I failed) and was asked a problem related to some sort of monotonic queue. I wrote the solution and was going through it, when the interviewer asked: 'what CS concept are you using in this solution'? I didn't really understand what he was asking for and in turn I asked for more clarification like 'Are you referring to the data structures I used? Or the technique (it was some sort of greedy)?' 'no'. After a couple of back-and-forth questions and answers, he finally tells me he was looking for me to say 'a state machine'. Seriously?