I think it's less of an IQ test and more akin to a gang initiation ritual. Instead of "the condition of joining our gang is you need to murder a random in cold

I think it's less of an IQ test and more akin to a gang initiation ritual. Instead of "the condition of joining our gang is you need to murder a random in cold blood" they are saying "our hazing ritual is grinding several hundred hours of leetcode and finally running the leetcode gauntlet, if you can endure that, you're in".