I work with someone whose go-to question is the 8 Queens problem. I think it's an interesting exercise, but like you said it's quite long - can easily consume m

I work with someone whose go-to question is the 8 Queens problem. I think it's an interesting exercise, but like you said it's quite long - can easily consume most of the interview. It's also very poorly aligned with the kind of work we do and code we write (for example, I can't think of a single place in our code using recursion) and so I'm not a fan of it as part of an interview. Edit: typo