I think you’re actually arguing my side. All I’m saying is the candidates should be smart and capable enough to figure out those problems, which is more than en

I think you’re actually arguing my side. All I’m saying is the candidates should be smart and capable enough to figure out those problems, which is more than enough for me. I’m not going to hire someone who can’t solve one of these problems if they absolutely needed to: these are pretty basic computer science problems at the end of the day. I’m looking for problem solving capability, not rote memorization. But at the same time I’m not going to ask them because they are condescending; it’s like asking someone with a math degree interviewing for a teaching job to explain basic algebra in an interview, which would be absurd. And if they really couldn’t do basic algebra, it’d come out through other lines of questioning.