Sites like this make me sad. For some reason it reminds me of an article I recently read in the New Yorker about Magnus Carlsen and his comments about how widespread use of chess software and databases is ruining human chess, because people have started to think like the computers. Too much reliance on information, less on originality.

Based on my experience, A lot of tech interviews in large companies nowadays are mostly done by young people who have limited understanding of what a good employee is (because more tech savvy guys don't want to waste time with interviews) and who therefore keep asking rote questions like: "how do you shuffle a deck of cards", or (my favorite) "What is the 'mutable' keyword do?" and string matching the answer to the right one in their minds. This in turn has affected the interview preparation process, consisting mostly of memorizing the answers to the rote questions.

Which (as the architect in The Matrix said) has led the would-be coders, inexorably, here and similar sites.