Actually, i wanted to ask this question to good software engineers.
I once had a coding problem interview where a half of the logic could be handled by an autobalncing tree. I\ve never really used autobalancing trees in real software before, but i knew how to make them from scratch, quickly as RB tree is a very common school problem. I spend twenty minutes choosing between coding one from scratch and picking an already existing solution. I ended up choosing gnl's RB trees, with all the makefile/autoinstall issue that i would have to fix instead. I did not gain any time, really, but i wanted to show i did not suffer the NIH syndrome. Was that a mistake? Should i stay within the stdlib during coding interviews (i don't know if they could run the code, i think the interviewer was running windows)
I once had a coding problem interview where a half of the logic could be handled by an autobalncing tree. I\ve never really used autobalancing trees in real software before, but i knew how to make them from scratch, quickly as RB tree is a very common school problem. I spend twenty minutes choosing between coding one from scratch and picking an already existing solution. I ended up choosing gnl's RB trees, with all the makefile/autoinstall issue that i would have to fix instead. I did not gain any time, really, but i wanted to show i did not suffer the NIH syndrome. Was that a mistake? Should i stay within the stdlib during coding interviews (i don't know if they could run the code, i think the interviewer was running windows)