> trying to solve a coding problem that in no way resembled anything I have ever encountered in my 25 year career. that describes 2/3rds of the 'codility' test

> trying to solve a coding problem that in no way resembled anything I have ever encountered in my 25 year career. that describes 2/3rds of the 'codility' tests I've been given in a few scenarios (toptal used it to weed me out). The couple of jobs I've been in where I was explicitly barred from ever asking any clarifying questions, or talking to business/SME folks about the problem at hand... I left those pretty quickly. I guess it serves to weed out people who have some hard-wired dependency on talking to people to clarify requirements.