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I mean, the interview requirements are quirky and unconventional as heck.

Anyone saying "you gotta check divisibility without math" on the job would get laughed out of the room.

The only thing I can think of is they were fielding for them to say "that's not possible" and push back, potentially as a way to gauge if they would reject unreasonable client expectations or something.

Then it's a stupid way to check for it, because it was possible and trivial enough to implement in a short time frame with a "rewrite" in the middle and no attempt to meassure pushing back in other ways when the first one failed

Yea still absolutely unreasonable, but it's the only way it even makes sense for me

Possible but risky in an interview. Some people are really unreasonable.

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