> This one was bad enough that Bezos left the field, yet Amazon (like every other software company) still asks these style of questions of its engineering candi

> This one was bad enough that Bezos left the field, yet Amazon (like every other software company) still asks these style of questions of its engineering candidates. FWIW Amazon does experiment with different interview formats. They used to (still do?) interviews where you get a laptop and spend the day working on a simple problem where interviewers will ask you questions about why you did the things you did.