Why companies ask for these concepts during interviews

There are many reasons why companies focus on data structures and algorithms concepts during job interviews, even if you are not going to use some of these concepts during daily tasks, including:

• Problem-solving skills: data structures and algorithms are a great tool to evaluate the candidate's problem-solving abilities. They can be used to evaluate how a person approaches unfamiliar problems, breaks them down into smaller tasks and designs a solution.
• Coding proficiency: companies can evaluate how candidates translate their solution into clean and efficient code, how candidates choose the appropriate data structure for the problem, design an algorithm with the correct logic, consider edge cases and optimize their code.
• Software performance: a strong understanding of data structures and algorithms translates directly to successful delivery of every development task, such as designing scalable solutions by choosing the right...