To clarify about my latest alg test, it's not that these types of problems aren't important to interview, but the candidate could definitely have some input on

To clarify about my latest alg test, it's not that these types of problems aren't important to interview, but the candidate could definitely have some input on what they know. For example, if all I've used in my real world professional career are some graphing algs, Dijkstra's variations, and Levenshtein string distance type of stuff, asking me a variation on a bubble sort alg on a New Year's Even line waiting problem out of the blue is going to be brutal and likely not test my real world abilities. You could argue that I could study up on all the old stuff, which I'm doing, but it still feels like a time suck and solidifies that these interviews are skewed to the people who left college more recently.