The O-Word

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The O-Word

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Nothing quite says "I'm about to tank this interview" like casually dropping that you're going to use Bubble Sort for a simple problem. It's like showing up to a Formula 1 race in a horse-drawn carriage and wondering why everyone's staring.

The interviewer's soul literally left their body the moment those two cursed words left your mouth. Bubble Sort? BUBBLE SORT?! For an array of 0s, 1s, and 2s? That's O(n²) of pure, unfiltered chaos when you could literally count the elements and reconstruct the array in O(n). It's the Dutch National Flag problem, bestie, not "let's swap adjacent elements 47 times for funsies."

The roast is absolutely DEVASTATING because grandma with her arthritis and rotary phone would genuinely outperform your algorithm. She'd probably just manually place each number in the right spot while you're still on your 500th comparison swap. The interviewer didn't even need to say anything—that look of existential dread said it all.

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