[noponpop]

"The goal of an interview is to ascertain weather the candidate is capable of doing stuff and learning stuff, and if that's likely to carry over into the stuff you need done. It's not to see weather they can produce an answer to some specific problem on the spot. "

I have uttered these words breathlessly so many times and we continue to hire disappointnent after disappointment. These questions are so foolishly beat into silicon valley culture it's absurd. I have zero CS background and rise to the top of every team I've been on, why? Because I'll just grind as hard as it takes to learn the relevant things to solve the problem at hand.