Sarah
Senior Engineer
“Great job handling the edge case in your sort function. Extracting the comparison logic into its own function would make this much easier to unit-test. Really clean solution overall!”
Task: Implement a Binary Search Tree
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Implement a Binary Search Tree
“Great job handling the edge case in your sort function. Extracting the comparison logic into its own function would make this much easier to unit-test. Really clean solution overall!”
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James
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“The core logic is right but error handling is missing. What happens on a 500? Add a try/catch and surface a user-friendly message.”
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