I conducts lots of tech interviews for SWE positions, and as everybody's boning up on algorithmic trivia, I've learned that I can get a stronger hiring signal b

I conducts lots of tech interviews for SWE positions, and as everybody's boning up on algorithmic trivia, I've learned that I can get a stronger hiring signal by asking simpler questions that people with an aptitude for programming will succeed on and people with an aptitude for memorizing the implementations of algorithms will not. (Simple example: given two closed intervals [a..b] and [c..d], how do you compare the four values to determine whether or not the intervals overlap? You may laugh, but it defeats about 50% of candidates in the first minute of an interview because they just don't understand simple relationships and Boolean expressions.)