[paulbaumgart]

Potentially worthless anecdote: I mostly botched an algorithm for finding Pythagorean triplets in an interview recently, and still got called back. (For round 2 I brought a nice big cup of coffee ;-)

I don't have the experience to know how well it works in the general case, though. Anyway, I don't think Aaron is arguing against interviewers using the technique wrong, but rather that it doesn't correlate at all with "good hires", even when used more intelligently. I don't think that's true.