Yeah, no doubt that's a huge part of why we have these interview-as-exam experiences in software development. Still... the exams are harder than you'd need to

Yeah, no doubt that's a huge part of why we have these interview-as-exam experiences in software development. Still... the exams are harder than you'd need to simply weed out the fakers and cheaters. I can do various linked list and tree operations, set permutations, and so forth, and it's not like I've memorized it. I can apply these things. But the questions I've been asked in interviews... solving that, at the whiteboard, in less than an hour, all I can say is the companies are setting a much higher bar than merely ensuring that someone knows his or her stuff. That's fine, but let's make sure we don't pretend this is all about rooting out people who can't do fizz buzz. You can be pretty good at this stuff and still fail pretty badly at these interviews.