I totally agree with you, but I do combine the type of questions that you ask with some "memorization" questions with almost zero emphasis on the memorization part, but I do ask such questions to see how they think: if they give me textbook answers, that tells me that they prepared well for the interview, but if they answer from their head and they make sense, even if they don't give a 100% answer, that still counts as a CORRECT answer to me.
I do disagree about one thing though, that "No, there is no guaranteed scientific way". Never say never, right? Programming thought me that there are always solutions to problems, you just need to keep looking for them.
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I totally agree with you, but I do combine the type of questions that you ask with some "memorization" questions with almost zero emphasis on the memorization part, but I do ask such questions to see how they think: if they give me textbook answers, that tells me that they prepared well for the interview, but if they answer from their head and they make sense, even if they don't give a 100% answer, that still counts as a CORRECT answer to me.
I do disagree about one thing though, that "No, there is no guaranteed scientific way". Never say never, right? Programming thought me that there are always solutions to problems, you just need to keep looking for them.