The conclusion is a bit obvious: if you ask people algorithms questions, the people who do the best will be people who spent a lot of time rote learning algorit

The conclusion is a bit obvious: if you ask people algorithms questions, the people who do the best will be people who spent a lot of time rote learning algorithms material. This means schools which place a lot of emphasis on the theoretical core or people who've taken online algorithms courses. I'd be much more interested to see performance on other questions e.g. Google's typical curveball for new grads is an architecture question like "How would you implement YouTube?".