The weird part is that this is almost exclusively found in organizations that think of themselves as "tech"-y. I work somewhere on the border between neuroscie

The weird part is that this is almost exclusively found in organizations that think of themselves as "tech"-y. I work somewhere on the border between neuroscience and machine learning. Interviewing in a "neuro" group usually involves a lot of talking--what you've done on project X, how would you approach Y, what do you know about Z. Coding does come up, but in the context of stuff that I've done or would do on the job. Applying for a very similar job in a tech company usually starts with me reversing strings on a whiteboard or abusing C++ templates to calculate factorials or something....