""" You should not be testing people’s ability to recall some obscure definition in an interview. You should be testing people’s ability to tackle something they can’t recall off the top of their head. And, you should allow them every tool they have available. If they’re totally unfamiliar with the problem, and yet they make significant progress in just one hour that should be interpreted as a good sign this person w…
I mean, this is the whole point of the dreaded coding whiteboard interview, no? You can't memorize your way out of it, and with any luck the interviewer will be looking at the big picture of how you tackle the problem and what headway you make, instead of sniping at syntax or the names of library calls.