That's why these interviews select for recent grads. Or leet code studiers.
Yes we've all done this in university. We've learned the theory. We had to write an implementation of this or that algorithm in whatever language the university made us use.
And we also know that great minds took a long time to come up with these in the first place. These "basic algorithms" are not something you think up in 5 minutes after first learning that computers exist or that some problem exists.
Bin packing algorithms are another such thing. Sure ask me interview "questions" like "please prove whether P=NP".
Yes we've all done this in university. We've learned the theory. We had to write an implementation of this or that algorithm in whatever language the university made us use.
And we also know that great minds took a long time to come up with these in the first place. These "basic algorithms" are not something you think up in 5 minutes after first learning that computers exist or that some problem exists.
Bin packing algorithms are another such thing. Sure ask me interview "questions" like "please prove whether P=NP".
Eff off Mr. or Mrs. interviewer!