[Etheryte]

Based on your description, it sounds like a bad interview question. When otherwise capable candidates can't answer your trivia, maybe it isn't a useful signal? More than anything, it just sounds like you're selecting for people who practiced leetcode vs those who didn't.

[zozbot234]

It's not whether you can solve it right away, it's how you approach the problem solving process to reach a viable solution. If "try to prove that this code is actually correct" is part of that process, that's the kind of "trivia" that can really be widely applicable even in a working environment, in a way that random leetcode algos often aren't.

I vote for making "how would you think about proving this correct?" a question in all algo-focused interviews.

[hiAndrewQuinn]

To be precise, Zoz said

>about 2/3rds of highly credentialed applicants

Credentialed ≠ capable.