First code reviews are always interesting with interns, I love reading through them to learn stuff (I'm an operations focussed / sysadmin type, coding is more something I've picked up as I've gone along and wanted to automate stuff)
This particular intern was dead set on this red-black tree, despite it being rejected constructively, repeatedly, every time they tried to introduce it, and despite mentoring on the subject from the experienced developer who was his mentor, and guidance from other engineers in the group.
The only intern I every had to deal with who didn't seem to recognise that production code is different from academic code, where the balance on clever vs maintainable is vastly different :)
This particular intern was dead set on this red-black tree, despite it being rejected constructively, repeatedly, every time they tried to introduce it, and despite mentoring on the subject from the experienced developer who was his mentor, and guidance from other engineers in the group.
The only intern I every had to deal with who didn't seem to recognise that production code is different from academic code, where the balance on clever vs maintainable is vastly different :)