In which case framing the test as “technical interview” would be a bit dishonest. You should name it “stress environment coping test”. But anyway you are right

In which case framing the test as “technical interview” would be a bit dishonest. You should name it “stress environment coping test”. But anyway you are right those moments do happen, but those times it’s usually “all hands on deck” kind of event where people are actively trying to help each other. Those are actually “fun” in a sense since you actually feel needed and encouraged rather than judged and scrutinized. And each time something like this happens, it usually means a failure of the company process as a whole. Can expect it from startups but definitely not from big companies. So if you honestly want to test that out for a candidate, it puts a huge red flag for him that said company is mismanaged. In effect you’re filtering for people that don’t know this - e.g. junior devs, or people who don’t care / tolerate it, so they won’t attempt to fix the mismanagement that allowed it to happen, the last thing you would want probably. Thinking about it you could even stage such a contrived stress test, and actually hire people that _do_ flip out as those would probably be the ones that care enough to fix longstanding issues.