Are you saying this because you have actual evidence? The place where evidence is needed is in support of the hypothesis that these questions actually work (in

Are you saying this because you have actual evidence? The place where evidence is needed is in support of the hypothesis that these questions actually work (in favor of achieving their stated ends). That is, the question to ask should be: "Do any of these companies asking these questions have actual evidence that they actually work?" I grant that many people who ask (overdrawn, larger-than-life) questions like these probably believe that they help identify good engineers. Whether these questions actually achieve that goal is an entirely different matter.