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Companies are groups of people behaving a certain way, and jobs are behaving that way. As an outsider, you don't know what the job is. If the interview is a bunch of questions you think is stupid, then the job is probably doing a bunch of stuff you think is stupid. If you want the money and prestige anyway, then learn to do the stupid stuff.

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Which is why, as mentioned, unless I am desperate for a job, I walk out.

Or maybe the job is about actually carrying golf balls into planes.

You understand that this is a job interview working as intended? You may be awesome at the work but your values do not align with the company’s and it’s best if you don’t work there.

I do understand that these are stupid ways to achieve that goal.

So if somebody tried to solve the brainteaser with an impossibly high likelihood of being completely wrong. You get the signal that their values match yours, they are open minded and that they are good at writing great programs?

I bet it is about solving the daily brain teaser of working with unmaintainable code!

I thought we had Fable for that now.

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