I do hate pre-interview coding questions. But that company that is interviewing you is going to spend a lot of time. We have 2 people come to each interview, an

I do hate pre-interview coding questions. But that company that is interviewing you is going to spend a lot of time. We have 2 people come to each interview, and we have about 6 hours including lunch between interviews with people here. So assume 1/2 hour prep before hand, 1/2 hour after writing it up, 6 slots x 2 people 2 x hours = 24 hours invested in an interview. I have had a few people refuse to do interview questions in my life. Both times they were principal level devs who knew execs at the companies. Both times they failed after a few wasted years. That's not true of all of them, but I'm a principal dev, and I mostly work on architecture and planning, but I don't hire people to my role if they can't code.