You mean you have never been part of an interview or supposed acquihire were you were brain picked? That’s happened to me at least five times already.

There is far more to things than code. Examples: what is your ARPU, why didn’t you do it this way, how many bytes per unit time can you upload this way, where do you see the market going, who is still at the company, what do you think of this type of market?

see my comment here,

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23332582