Comment by leothekim

I think asking for particular details of an algorithm is pointless, and I wonder how many interviewers actually do that. The more common questions I've encountered in interviews are along the lines of "serialize a binary tree" where the data structures are basic but the problem has different possibly suboptimal ways of being solved. I'm curious if there really is an inherent and implicit bias to these sorts of questions that favors younger candidates. I'd be very sad if that's the case, as I'm more inclined to think other personal biases are in play.