It's fair to expect any candidate to hire to produce the brute-force code and do some rudimentary/rough analysis. That's not why it's a bad question. It's a ba

It's fair to expect any candidate to hire to produce the brute-force code and do some rudimentary/rough analysis. That's not why it's a bad question. It's a bad question because _how well_ a candidate does past that minimum threshold has _no correlation_ with their ability to do the job. You can treat it as a binary question for that minimum floor. To use it for rating, you're doing your org and the candidate a disservice and you're wasting interviewing time that could be spent more productively and humanely.