Programming interviews are really important but the questions should not be those about tricky data structure or based on obsecure mathematical trick. IMO the q

Programming interviews are really important but the questions should not be those about tricky data structure or based on obsecure mathematical trick. IMO the question should be presented in terms of real world concepts so that the candidate can be tested on what data structure they use to model the data related to the problem statement and the problem statement should be simple enough that you can easily come up with a very high level approach yet the implementation would require understadning concepts of conditionals/iteration/recursion. And you should also check how the candidate break the problem into smaller problems (instead of writing a single big function)