I think algorithmization is a must for programming. (Like you said, transforming/filtering data, results, structures, etc.) No questions about that. But grillin

I think algorithmization is a must for programming. (Like you said, transforming/filtering data, results, structures, etc.) No questions about that. But grilling candidates for hours about it seems "a bit" excessive. (Which is again qualitatively different from asking someone to write a few lines of pseudocode/python/whatever-they-want to map/reduce something or ask them how they would implement a calculator, a few pointed questions about knowing the basics, etc.)