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The fact that you didn't even think about asking if it's balanced or not, and just went into declaring stupid everyone that considers the problem hard is annoying.

I wouldn't want to have an interview with you, or you selecting people for a team I'm on.

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Why would it be balanced. Nobody said it was a search tree.

Just the fact that somebody is talking about "implementing" it implies there's further complication than defining a recursive type.

People in general do not communicate on the cleanest ambiguosity-free way;

If you can’t remember the details or understand what makes the problem hard I doubt it would’ve been fine even given a whole day.

I’ve interviewed a _lot_ of people. The people who gripe the loudest about algorithms haven’t had a chance just from answers to situational questions.

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