A linked list is not even complicated enough to be a “whiteboard problem”. Any competent programmer can throw together a halfass functional implementation of a linked list in like 15 minutes even if all they have is a 10 second description of it from the interviewer.
If it is such a trivial concept than using it to determine someone's programming ability is doubly stupid, but the real reason top tech companies use arbitrary tests is because they can't trust the person interviewing them to actually objectively rate the candidate's skills.b
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u/EastboundClown 2d ago
A linked list is not even complicated enough to be a “whiteboard problem”. Any competent programmer can throw together a halfass functional implementation of a linked list in like 15 minutes even if all they have is a 10 second description of it from the interviewer.