That interview process doesn’t just select for people who truly understand algorithms at a fundamental level. It also admits people who are good at memorizing t

That interview process doesn’t just select for people who truly understand algorithms at a fundamental level. It also admits people who are good at memorizing the solutions to hundreds of leetcode-style problems. It is likely better at selecting more of the latter than the former. When I ask algo questions during interviews they’re always based on real problems that have arisen in our code. Making the question actually relevant to the job is both a better interview process overall and has the added benefit of instantly filtering out the memorizers.