If 95% of the work you need done is too obvious and simple, maybe you don't need to hire as good of programmers as you think you do, and why are you trying to make things in the interview artificially harder than the work that needs to be done?

It's kind of like asking someone interviewing to be a cashier at a fast food restaurant multivariable calculus problems, because 95% of the math they're going to have to do at their job is "too obvious and simple".

> If 95% of the work you need done is too obvious and simple, maybe you don't need to hire as good of programmers as you think you do, and why are you trying to make things in the interview artificially harder than the work that needs to be done?

If these high-priority and hard 5% were easily separable from the tedious 95%, this logic would be correct.