jeez

Every time I try to explain what a google circle is, people (for some reason) go out of their way to defend facebook. Is that because they depend so much on it? How do I explain people how circles are NOT facebook groups?

Edit 1: Changed title to add 'Google'

I had my first round of interview today[phone interview] with a <reputed silicon firm>and i think it went well. So I'm sure the face-to-face interview is going to be more rigorous than this. Can you guys shoot a lot of <simple but hard> problems pertaining to C++ and Data Structures?

For example, i didn't know what a virtual function was, but I've used it before. So any tips on what to read up on is appreciated too. On the phone interview: Interviewer: How do you find if a linked list has a cycle? Me:(feeling very confident) Use a set and every time a new element is traversed, write its pointer part into the set. Keep track of the number of nodes visited and size of the set. If/When they get unequal, you have found a loop! Him: Er... use two pointers, one for the first element and the second for the next element. When both of their next elements are the same, its a loop. Me: Oh...yeah. :|

So, you guys get the idea i hope. And yeah, wish me luck. :) Thanks in advance.