Asking Linked List questions for senior interviews?

[sreenm]

I have around 10+exp. Recently, I have been trying for job change and most companies are asking Linked List questions in the interviews instead of the role/expertise/something needed for the project. So, I get rejection mails from some roles which we really liked.

Usually, when we take interviews to our team, we focus mostly on arrays/hashmaps/strings, etc as we encounter them in all the work.

Not sure why these companies still want to use Linked List even for senior interviews.

[john_the_writer]

Well elixir has no concept of an array.. the [] denotes a linked list (under the hood), so there I get the use of a linked list.

Working with it as a linked list, or implementing one. Unless you're looking for a role in lower level stuff, I just don't see the need.