I guess it all boils down to who you are hiring (the OP is talking about hiring senior developers). It is ok to ask more technical questions to fresh graduates

I guess it all boils down to who you are hiring (the OP is talking about hiring senior developers). It is ok to ask more technical questions to fresh graduates as they don't have any other experience anyway. > it rewards people who at least put the effort in to prepare for an interview Is this a good thing? Would you rather hire smart people, or people who studied a few leetcode questions the night before the interview? > Would anyone trust a civil engineer who can't answer first semester math questions? Civil engineers use that knowledge in everything they do. A really small subset of developers need to implement tree traversal algorithms from scratch on a daily basis.