I get the feeling that the people who don't like algorithms interviews are also the people who find them difficult to pass.
Go ahead and memorize, it'll be obvious if you can't explain how you got that answer.
Go ahead and memorize, it'll be obvious if you can't explain how you got that answer.
Traditional technical interviews don't seem to help you find the best candidates (Google famously studied their interview process and decided it was no better than chance).
So maybe don't do a technical interview. Or if you do, just take a couple of real problems from work.
If you're making a lot of hires, do some research and run a RCT.