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"it's important to choose whiteboard questions that don't require specialized knowledge of a certain algorithm or formula." -really agreed on this one.

as a lot of hardcore folks will tell you that if you don't know this sorting algorithm or this whatever data structure, you lack fundamentals. heck I can't even remember sql foreign key creation syntax, but I'm building lots of full stack web apps and are already being maintained by different people and still run smoothly.