But I Thought You Liked Binary Trees

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But I Thought You Liked Binary Trees

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The corporate double standard strikes again! When a slick job candidate brags about coding a binary tree from scratch, the manager swoons. But when an existing employee accomplishes the exact same feat, it's straight to HR. Classic workplace hierarchy in action - your impressive data structure skills are either "sweet" or suspicious depending entirely on your employment status. The technical achievement hasn't changed, but suddenly management's threat detection algorithm is running at O(n!) complexity.

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