How to find Even or Odd number without Modulus Operator

I don't mean that this isn't a good topic, just that I always imagined that interview questions would be harder to solve and that they wouldn't ask for contrived solutions (solutions that aren't obvious and could lead to bugs for new coders, while not being better in many other ways).

public static boolean isOdd(int i) { return i & 1 == 1; }