> even at BigCo end up writing CSS code to move pixels only Is this common at Google? If by DSA knowledge you mean leetcode puzzle knowledge, yes, quite certa

> even at BigCo end up writing CSS code to move pixels only Is this common at Google? If by DSA knowledge you mean leetcode puzzle knowledge, yes, quite certainly. But from my experience fresh grads are less effective engineers before they mature by working with industry scale systems for a few years. And at that point they would have been less able to do your problem but a far better engineer. Which means your interview question is aimed backwards, maybe if you only used it against fresh college grads then the gain function would be positive, but you applied it against everyone.