> If this is considered dehumanizing, I'm concerned for the future of our industry. Anyone with even a first undergraduate algorithms course should immediately

> If this is considered dehumanizing, I'm concerned for the future of our industry. Anyone with even a first undergraduate algorithms course should immediately spit out "sort by customer and page, then stream the output". Well yes, but that's not what this is about. It's about social pressure, not ability. I could program this for you right now if I wanted to; most "optimisations" seemed the "obvious ones" to me, so I guess I would have passed. I could also program it in a hurry at ludicrous speed under pressure because all of production is down or whatever. But ... I wouldn't be able to program this in an interview setting. Last time I was asked a bunch of even easier things (in a timed interview, no less), where I literally have some exact code on my GitHub. I just couldn't finish it. Not because I can't "get" it, but because programming while two strangers are judging your every keystroke and commenting on what you're doing is just nerve-wrecking. Or, basically this sketch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQa5NsdYSts https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQa5NsdYSts