I also like this style, but you have to be very mindful of the fact that you've been thinking about the problem 1000x more than the candidate. The Curse of Know

I also like this style, but you have to be very mindful of the fact that you've been thinking about the problem 1000x more than the candidate. The Curse of Knowledge[1] haunts the interview process. I haven't tried it much, but maybe it would be better to always use a fresh problem in each interview that not even you had seen. Maybe selected from StackOverflow. 1. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curse_of_knowledge http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curse_of_knowledge