I don't think you're crazy, but if their work and your work are detached enough from BFS and linked lists, why use them as the assessment criteria? It's not re

I don't think you're crazy, but if their work and your work are detached enough from BFS and linked lists, why use them as the assessment criteria? It's not really that difficult to make quotidian software engineering tasks into interview questions. I've at least seen it done successfully before. More anecdotes: a nontrivial number of the "algorithmic trick" interviews I've done were questions I knew the answer to beforehand – and often the interviewer didn't care when I told them ("I just want to see how you think" or "Just show me how you'd code it" or sometimes even "OK, just tell me the solution and we'll move on to the next part"). What happens to the people who don't have the same background? Are they really less competent software engineers because their algs class didn't cover making a queue from two stacks?