purbeast0
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You can't use that in an interview so you better learn it and the techniques to remember it even if you don't use such things in your day to day job. That's also why I recommend that cracking the code book a few pages back.
yeah but that is also a valid answer in an interview question. i use google a shitload in my day to day job, just like for simple things that i know the answer to but not the syntax. like today i had to look up the documentation for _.find with underscorejs. i know exactly what it does, i just don't use it often at all and forgot the syntax.
so being able to use google and read documentation or things on stackoverflow, and putting that into your own scenario, is actually valuable.
i've answered questions in interviews stating that i don't know the exact answer, but what my solution would be to find out the answer. any good dev shop will understand that you won't know everything, but if you know general concepts you can pick up things pretty easily.