At first reading, I thought this would be horrible but then I realised it would tell me as an interviewee how good/bad the code is before I join. If there are

At first reading, I thought this would be horrible but then I realised it would tell me as an interviewee how good/bad the code is before I join. If there are no comments, loads of "clever" optimisations lots of "syntactic sugar" it would be a good time to GTFO.