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Or you could just flat-out ask them if they memorised all of their introductory CS textbooks.


These are all pretty simple and fair questions. Nothing you should need a textbook for, unless you're faking something on your resume...


I'm not suggesting that these questions would require a textbook, but rather that they aren't particularly insightful interview questions as they test something that can come by rote out of a textbook.




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