I've been doing interviews and coding tests recently, but this beats anything I've seen in terms of awfulness. To me, the only thing worse than being tested on

I've been doing interviews and coding tests recently, but this beats anything I've seen in terms of awfulness. To me, the only thing worse than being tested on your ability to write clever code would be to end-up working in an organisation where everyone had been selected on their ability to write clever code. I can't make up my mind whether these interviewers are simply staggeringly unaware, or gatekeeping, or that they enjoy making people suffer. The latter because, for every candidate like the author, there will be multiple candidates for whom this kind of test leaves them frozen and anxious. I wish people involved in interviewing would think more about what they're doing.