I understand that point, but I just personally hate the stress and the irrelevance of the "over-the-shoulder" algorithm problems that a recent CS grad would be

I understand that point, but I just personally hate the stress and the irrelevance of the "over-the-shoulder" algorithm problems that a recent CS grad would be almost more suited to answering. If I'm really interested in working for a company, I have no issue spending a couple hours building a little app to prove my chops.