This is all true, although note that I was not a founder or initial employee; I definitely arrived during the second half of the company's decades-long lifespa

This is all true, although note that I was not a founder or initial employee; I definitely arrived during the second half of the company's decades-long lifespan. The test was just developed years after I was hired, and I was not involved in its development in any way (except for once taking it to act as a baseline for what a senior programmer's answers might look like). I just thought it was a really neat and kind idea to let the applicant choose what question or questions they wanted to discuss and in what order, instead of forcing them to answer a single pre-defined high-pressure coding question and hang the whole interview on that.