[Someone1234]

While I strongly dislike "puzzle questions" and questions which don't directly apply to the job (e.g. Reverse Linked List for a Java job?), I will say that this comment:

> I checked the guy who asked me the question, he never went to any competitive school or never has done anything special except mugging up those linked list question.

Makes you look bad. Disagreeing with the questions or interview process is completely fine. Making it personal by looking up the interviewer and then suggesting that such questions are unreasonable because the interviewer isn't worthy of them is unprofessional and immature.

Also maybe this is a company YOU don't wish to work at? If they were giving you inappropriate interview questions maybe that is an indicator of the company's internal culture (e.g. unreasonable demands, etc).

[lk145]

The problem is that irrelevant whiteboarding questions are far more the norm than relevant whiteboarding questions. Most companies interview this way, so if you avoid those companies you avoid nearly everyone.

I'm a full stack developer who specializes in front-end. Knowing how to structure a front-end app, knowing/following JavaScript best practices, and understanding the arcane idiosyncrasies of JavaScript are in my opinion three of the biggest values a front-end developer can add. However, the companies that assess this stuff in interview are an extremely small minority. I usually get questions about binary trees.

It's partly because it's more difficult to assess those ways of thinking in interview, and it's partly because linked list kinds of questions are just the way interviewing has always been done, so people keep doing it.