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Originally Posted by spike021

For all you programmers out there, today I failed an interview for panicking and totally forgetting to question the value-types of the data I was working with.

i.e.

array: [["1230", "testing", ""], ["200", "testing3", ""], ["1230", "testing1", ""], ["2000", "testing", ""]]

Basically the first value is a timestamp in 2400 format. I had to sort first by the 2nd value (some word), and then sort by the first.

So I did a Python library sort with a lambda.

But I messed up one thing, I kept getting the list back in a different than expected order.

With that bug, I screwed up the rest of the interview.

The bug was... I was sorting the first values (the timestamps) as strings, not type-casting to integers.

There are far too many words in this post I don't understand

You fail an interview for that? I figure if you could explain what you did wrong reasonably and in a timely manner that would be almost as good as a straight pass.