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by beaknit 4134 days ago
"if you don’t make it clear what you are looking for, you aren’t really testing their technical competence, you’re testing their ability to guess the answer you’re looking for"

^ +1

Google stopped doing this for a reason. Give people real problems to solve, then dive deep on their answer. Unless you're interviewing for an algorist, this is a waste of everyone's time.