While I do agree with your general point your analogies are bad because yes, you can test drive a car, yes attorneys often have a first free session with potent

While I do agree with your general point your analogies are bad because yes, you can test drive a car, yes attorneys often have a first free session with potential clients. That being said the come back makes perfect sense to me. When I was still on the IC track and interviewing, when I was submitted to some "dumb" questions I would ask the same kind to the interviewer. So you just asked me to write this stupid algorithm? How about you whiteboard something for me now? It was almost always met with dead silence to which I would say "well you're trying to figure out if I'm good, I want to do the same and make sure your team has good engineers". Of course it never went anywhere since, while they had 55 minutes to grill me I was only given the last 5 for my questions.