To me it's a tool and it depends on what role your hiring for. If your looking for new grads and they've had an algorithm class recently why not to see if they'

To me it's a tool and it depends on what role your hiring for. If your looking for new grads and they've had an algorithm class recently why not to see if they've paid attention in class. It probably isn't a bad idea if your hiring for an algorithm based role. optimizing a large scale proprietary search or database. But, if your hiring a crud dev there going to get bored with the job, be annoyed your organization puts customers over technology, and probably pissed their under paid.