I assumed you had a CS degree sorry. My point is at the university I graduated from "far from one of the top university", second year student all had to write a

I assumed you had a CS degree sorry. My point is at the university I graduated from "far from one of the top university", second year student all had to write a clone of "Mario Bros" from scratch in 6502 assembly. And wrote most part of an operating system "basic filesystem, task scheduler, virtual memory system ..". Which mean even the student that had the worst grade did all that and could do it again without help. So if I had to interview someone that went to the same university that I did, I don't see the point in asking them to write code to invert a linked list or to solve the n-queen problem because I already know they can do this and I am more interested to know if they have real world experience. By real world experience I mean know the downside of using a database like Apache Cassandra and to not use it for storing money related data despite all the hype about nosql ...