Ah! What you describe drives me bonkers! I’ve had interviews which start very casually, “we just want to have a high-level conversation, no crazy whiteboard co

Ah! What you describe drives me bonkers! I’ve had interviews which start very casually, “we just want to have a high-level conversation, no crazy whiteboard coding or anything”, then, absolutely randomly in the middle of said “high-level” discussion, I get > “well we did prepare a question to test your quantitative reasoning skills; so assume we have a bug that is detected by an analyzer with a false-negative rate of 0.3% and the probability of a bug existing at all is 7% and <sea of numbers> what’s the probability that a given test will report blah blah blah” Of course this is communicated purely verbally. > “This looks like a typical Bayes rule problem. Is that what you want me to calculate?” > “Maybe, maybe not. That could be an approach. We just want the final percentage. Feel free to pull out your phone and use the calculator.” Then of course, on the spot, I’m fumbling around with whether you divide by P(A) or P(B) or … to find P(B|A), and mucking around on a 4-function calculator like a dweeb. So much for the “high-level discussion.”