Myths about Hash Tables
&gt; Engineers irrationally avoid hash tables because of the worst-case O(n) search time.<p>Not sure about other people here but I haven&#x27;t heard any developers I work with avoid hash tables for reasons like this. I find most coders treat hash tables as black boxes that offer instant lookups.<p>Also, I found from giving interviews most developers can&#x27;t explain at a basic level how a hash table works as well as other fundamental data structures like linked lists.