If you know how to implement QuickSort you are either a noob just finishing college, implying you're "sub-optimal" for whatever position they're looking to fill, or you read "How to ace 100 job interview questions", and you're 100% useless and an imposter. The same is true for "xyz" feature. Replace "xyz" with whatever you wish here ...
Technical interviews asking the candidate to solve irrelevant tasks are the recipe for disaster. Ask the candidate to "describe the purposeof xyz", then replace xyz with for instance ...
async programming
HTTP headers
Foreign keys
Etc, etc, etc ...
... is much more productive, and illustrates the candidate actually understands the subject at hand, allowing you to ask follow up questions such as "give me an example of when you needed feature 'xyz' and how it helped you for a particular problem".
Everything else besides the above is pure madness, and literally results in a 100% guarantee of that you'll end up with hiring the worst possible candidate ...!!
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If you know how to implement QuickSort you are either a noob just finishing college, implying you're "sub-optimal" for whatever position they're looking to fill, or you read "How to ace 100 job interview questions", and you're 100% useless and an imposter. The same is true for "xyz" feature. Replace "xyz" with whatever you wish here ...
Technical interviews asking the candidate to solve irrelevant tasks are the recipe for disaster. Ask the candidate to "describe the purposeof xyz", then replace xyz with for instance ...
... is much more productive, and illustrates the candidate actually understands the subject at hand, allowing you to ask follow up questions such as "give me an example of when you needed feature 'xyz' and how it helped you for a particular problem".
Everything else besides the above is pure madness, and literally results in a 100% guarantee of that you'll end up with hiring the worst possible candidate ...!!