I've been on interviews where the questions are so basic I've been variously confused and insulted. "This job must pay crap," I'd think, or it's pointless work.

I've been on interviews where the questions are so basic I've been variously confused and insulted. "This job must pay crap," I'd think, or it's pointless work. Now, thanks to the Internet, I've learned that these things can't be taken for granted. And I'm not a coding genius. I don't particularly like being put on the spot. I've had problems coding before (personally) and just had to go away until the problem magically became easy. Under the pressure of an interview, that kind of lockup would be disastrous. So it sucks, but apparently the industry is in a place right now where a lot of less capable people have resumes that suggest they can do the jobs for which they are applying to. I object far more to the presumption that some company can waste my time for two days of non-stop interviews than ask me to code up some problem for them.