[przemelek]

I'm not sure. Yep, I tanked several interviews because even when I got info at the beginning that "we will look for your way of thinking and this how you handle problems" finally I heard "Yeah, it was OK, but there exist better algo to do it". But still for sure those interview questions are close to checking raw IQ/algos, and if somebody shines in those probably will be OK employee. And now it is question of candidates pool size, if you are one of wanted employers like Google, Amazon you may use this filter, you will loose a lot of good candidates who aren't good in algos, but those who will pass your interviews are still good, and you have good amount of those. Smaller, less sexy companies may have problem finding people with this approach, but bigger and better know probably don't have problems here.