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Re:How to get hired (or, 'The silly story of interviewing in... by pnathan on Monday December 19, 2011 @06:06PM (#3371500)
This article really indicates to me the fatuousness of this sorts of problem/solution interview approach.

I agree with timr in that a more more intelligent approach is to throw a problem at the candidate, then drill down into their thinking about the problem.

It's a bit silly if you're hiring based on regurgitation of algorithms in my opinion.

Re:How to get hired (or, 'The silly story of interviewing in... by tikhonj on Monday December 19, 2011 @09:37PM (#3372066)
I certainly agree. However, I haven't actually seen any pure problem/solution interviews--and this is just for internships where you wouldn't expect the companies to be as thorough. I had questions ranging from "find and fix the problems in this code" to "how would you design a library to do..." to "propose a solution to this problem and prove it works". This might be because I mostly talked to smaller companies.