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I agree with some parts of your answer but I have always wondered do u really evaluate the capabilities solely on an ability to solve these mind bending problems, there are lot of folks who might not know how to get an exact solution for a crazy hard dp problem but are very good devs and vice versa is also true a good cs interview might not necessarily translate to a great dev in a real world scenario.

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I didn't mean to imply that I solely evaluate capabilities based on a mind numbing problem. I think it's important to balance questions: CS coding questions that they should know (based on education or previous projects), and questions that they probably haven't encountered before. This way you get a good assessment of the level and quality of their existing knowledge, and then get to assess how well they can think and solve new challenges.

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