How about a single 4 hours coding session in which you and another engineer work on a real application solving the real problems the hiring company is working on?
What do you really test when you ask an engineer with a ton of experience to solve a classic Leetcode problem like implementing a trie-based search? The only thing I can think of is that you are confirming they made an effort to brush up their algorithm and data structure knowledge.
What do you really test when you ask an engineer with a ton of experience to solve a classic Leetcode problem like implementing a trie-based search? The only thing I can think of is that you are confirming they made an effort to brush up their algorithm and data structure knowledge.