Why do you call it cheating? Did the candidate actively copy a solution by deception or were they just very well prepared - to the point that they quickly recognised and solved the problem which they had seen before?
Perhaps I should throw out my CLRS and Skiena and invent everything in those books from scratch?
It's an Arms race because people like you have turned it into one. You're not solving Nobel prize winning problems, so stop expecting people to magically invent on the spot novel algorithms for things they've never seen before.
Perhaps I should throw out my CLRS and Skiena and invent everything in those books from scratch?
It's an Arms race because people like you have turned it into one. You're not solving Nobel prize winning problems, so stop expecting people to magically invent on the spot novel algorithms for things they've never seen before.
Some people are good at it and some are not.