CS interviewing theater. Linked list Q's are great if you're interviewing embedded sys engineers writing low-level kernel code in C and need to keep track of r

CS interviewing theater. Linked list Q's are great if you're interviewing embedded sys engineers writing low-level kernel code in C and need to keep track of resources. In that case, I would see if they could also implement a 2D infinite sparse matrix. Test for what the job requires, hopefully real-world problems using sequences of open-ended questions. Everything else academic or immaterial to the job might just be a mental shortcut or Lemminging everyone else. Perhaps run through how to talk to and provide customer service to non-technical stakeholders if those exist.