alt Hacker NewsWell in interviews this is tricky. Sometimes the interviewer wants to see I can new/delete properly, sometimes this tells me "well, if that's the style they are using I better go elsewhere"
If it's done as part of a "here is legacy code, suggest ways to improve it" question one should point it out, though.
Don’t worry. The question was super basic and almost every candidate still failed to mention that you need to delete in the destructor, that copying requires a new allocation or that you also need to define the move constructor. It made me sad about the state of C++ developers and thankful that Rust makes such mistakes impossible.