I see what you mean, but totally disagree, the important is not necessarily to pass those challenges, if at least there are interesting ideas presented. You co

I see what you mean, but totally disagree, the important is not necessarily to pass those challenges, if at least there are interesting ideas presented. You could say, why not giving Sudokus, or chess boards challenges to candidates? It's not totally bad either, it's just further from the context All this is not incompatible with knowing other engineering fields, networking, security, data structures, code patterns, which are indeed more useful in day-to-day work. Students are often selected the same way in exams, which won't really matter in their future job/life if you look at their content. But the process matters, school teaches you to learn mostly, like those small logical/algorithmic challenges trains you to think, visualize, reflect on data and more