> These screens pass people who can answer trivia but who can't effectively code, and they reject people who have a gift for solving engineering problems with c

> These screens pass people who can answer trivia but who can't effectively code, and they reject people who have a gift for solving engineering problems with code but who can't answer trivia questions when put on the spot. SRE's are hired to fix outages and other problems asap, knowing trivia is very important then since at that point you might be losing a million dollars per second.