> I want them to prepare for something they're not going to use normally <mind blown GIF goes here..> > Essentially I see it as a personality test that select

> I want them to prepare for something they're not going to use normally <mind blown GIF goes here..> > Essentially I see it as a personality test that selects for the kind of people that figure in it how to overcome technical adversity. This seems at odds with the original "ask", as it were: study up on some basic CS algorithms, and now I know you can handle what we're going to throw at you here. Ignoring the obvious "well, we need to make sure they can learn basic things", how is this even a viable test if your environment is so advanced, so high up, that you expect new candidates to encounter actual adversity?