When I was a hiring manager, people came in for interviews, some of them with many years of experience on paper, who couldn't walk a linked list. IMHO basic sc

When I was a hiring manager, people came in for interviews, some of them with many years of experience on paper, who couldn't walk a linked list. IMHO basic screens are needed. I also want to see how a person handles discussing problems, I like writing out an API and discussing how to use it to solve real world problems, what are the holes in it, what are the implications of the choices the API author made?