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Let me ask you a question; When was the last time you implemented Quick Sort? If you’re an experienced developer, there’s a 99% statistical probability of that you’ll answer “at university.” Still, no job interview seems to be complete unless you can correctly describe the pivot value in a multiple choice type of question. Ignoring the fact of that you could probably program your calculator to answer these questions, the relevance of these types of questions is; ZIP, NADA, NOTHING, NULL!

98% of my job as an enterprise software developer is composition, architecture, class design, and similar things. In fact, even if I try, I cannot imagine one single real world use case that involves me needing to know Quick Sort – But then again, what do I know? I only have 20+ years of professional experience. If some problem actually do need me to remember Quick Sort, I can probably copy and paste Jon Skeet’s code from StackOverflow faster than I can twist my brain for the correct solution anyway.

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