The argument about whether to ask algorithmic questions reminds of the "can an airplane on a treadmill take off?" question. There are two sides who arr sure tha

The argument about whether to ask algorithmic questions reminds of the "can an airplane on a treadmill take off?" question. There are two sides who arr sure that they're right and the others are wrong, but they're just answering subtly different questions. In this case, the people against always seem to come back to questioning why you would ask something that's just memorization, while the pro-algorithms side is pushing for questions that candidates wont know the answer to, so they can see how they think. I am in the second camp, if you cant tell.