Is It Really The Worst Interview Question?

Posted on So, 2014-07-27 in thoughts • Tagged with thoughts, programming, software-engineering

Recently I read a blog post about the supposedly worst programming interview question. So here is the question:

Write a function that can detect a cycle in a linked list.

Basically the guy that asked the question was testing of whether you've heard of Floyd's cycle-finding algorithm (aka. the tortoise …


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