The one where I was put in a room with like 25 other candidates, we were given an hour to solve a puzzle involving clues written on little bits of cardboard and

The one where I was put in a room with like 25 other candidates, we were given an hour to solve a puzzle involving clues written on little bits of cardboard and half way through one of the girls started to cry whilst the interviewers looked on impassively. This was a long time ago and for a large scale internship programme for teenagers (18-20) at a once-big tech firm that shall remain nameless. The goal appeared to be seeing how we worked together under pressure or something that, so after a while I guessed that the puzzle might not have a solution at all, as if it did some groups would finish a lot faster than others and then they wouldn't be able to watch us for the same length of time in each group. But none of the other kids had seemed to realize that. When the girl started to cry she was really sobbing and saying stuff like "we're not making any progress", so I said something like "yes that's true but bear in mind there might not be an answer" and she stopped crying immediately. I had to spend the next five minutes explaining this idea to the group and then the five after that convincing them that we had to keep working on the puzzle anyway, because even if the guess was right it didn't make any difference to the correct course of action. The whole exercise struck me as needlessly cruel for teenagers who were probably in their first job interview ever. Like, if you're recruiting for a serious job where you need to make fast decisions under pressure then fine, but putting kids through that? Later I became an interviewer for big tech myself and never saw anything similar. I must have been right though because I got an offer, but turned it down in favor of a more interesting company that had used a more individualized interview process.