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		SilasX on Feb 15, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The dystopian world of software engineering interv... You need to be considered for sainthood, with how charitable you’re being here. It’s also possible for interviewers to just be wrong and incapable of seeing it, like the one who misjudged the runtime of code that I wrote and didn’t even have the toolbox to resolve such a disagreement. https://www.reddit.com/r/cscareerquestions/comments/1ilh7o/w...

thomas2718 on Feb 17, 2020 [–]

Technically, your code runs in O(n^2), as O(n) is a part of O(n^2). Still, he should have accepted the more precise answer O(n).

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