>testing whether someone is willing to prepare for a thing is a relevant work skill test too. Is it, though? I could understand if algo questions had some rela

>testing whether someone is willing to prepare for a thing is a relevant work skill test too. Is it, though? I could understand if algo questions had some relation to the work you're doing, but your comment on why they're good is independent of the actual material. If we replaced the algorithm question interview with an interview testing obscure presidential facts, would it really be a useful test to have devs take? I guess it is a relevant work skill test in that you get people willing to put the work in/game the system, but it doesn't seem to be much of (if at all) an improvement from ad hoc conversations.