> They are testing for the kind of person that is willing to jump through hoops. That's true, but it is meant as a different filter when applied to a large num

> They are testing for the kind of person that is willing to jump through hoops. That's true, but it is meant as a different filter when applied to a large number of candidates. I went through a bunch of leetcode style interviews last year with some very odd interviewers - the oddest was a Sr Principal engineer asking me to manipulate linked lists with recursion. And the comment he made after I wrote the code was that "We don't care if you write code at work, but we want to know you like writing code enough to not see it as beneath you to do. To make sure you're not some whiteboard architect, because everyone you are supposed to lead will be writing code." I had been looking at the interview as a sort of idiot catcher before that point, but suddenly it seemed like a good filter for respecting the effort at the lowest level of the profession.