[saman_b]

I think it was the "flash boys" by Michael Lewis, that mentioned a Russian programmer that was very good at programming with pen and paper, and the reason was in old days there were not many computers around or you had to use punch cards to program. So the only option was to have the ability to write the code on paper and make sure everything is well thought of before you run the code on an actual computer.

It only makes sense if the interview process followed the same pattern in those days. The difference is there were not much information to remember, most probably if you knew few data structures and algorithms that was enough.

I feel the tech interview process, like so many other things, is still stuck in the past. Seems that the monks are still tying the cat to the tree without knowing why. Everyone seems unhappy about this but nothing changes.