If they were just out of school and currently unemployed with no dependents, sure. Otherwise, memorizing answers to homework assignments from an intermediate algorithms course seems like a poor way to spend significant time for someone whose job/career does not actually involve repeatedly implementing well-studied low-level algorithms from scratch on a tight deadline with no ability to look up reference materials.

I'd definitely prefer someone who doesn't feel the need to prepare and cram for irrelevant trivia exercises.