[throwawayboye]

I don’t care if candidates can figure out BFS under intense pressure in 30-60 minutes. That is nobody’s job anywhere ever. I want to know if someone can think creatively, if they’re a pain in the ass to work with, if they’re thoughtful and careful or if they shoot from the hip. Admittedly, these are hard to measure (which is one reason why I would support some kind of mild licensure, but that’s a different subject), but being able to derive BFS does not correlate with competence or ability. Maybe if you’re doing router hacking or something, I guess, but specific algorithms are so little of most developers’ careers.

Honestly, we all might as well read chicken entrails because that would be about as predictive as our current interview practices.