Rui Carmo
No, it isn’t. It’s just that a lot of technical people are fundamentally bad interviewers and usually let interviews devolve into a passive-aggressive variant of the NIH syndrome or ego trips. But yeah, I’ve always hated the quiz-like gimmicks, and only ever used them as ice-breakers. I usually ask people to describe strategies for a tackling a common, well-known problem and work my way from there.