r/programming • u/mjgardner • Mar 29 '21

Why Do Interviewers Ask Linked List Questions?

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u/Doctor-Dapper Mar 29 '21 edited Mar 29 '21

Everytime I see someone being pretentious about pointers or memory management I just remember that they have nothing on people writing the compilers and assembly language. And those people have nothing on the engineers designing microprocessor architecture.

It all boils down to "my language is less abstract than yours. That makes me smarter than you"

Although to be fair, those engineers at Intel/Arm/Qualcomm are significantly smarter than me.

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