The other day we were discussing interview questions at work. The idea came up to ask people to solve a simple programming task in an ugly, arcane, and generall

The other day we were discussing interview questions at work. The idea came up to ask people to solve a simple programming task in an ugly, arcane, and generally incorrect way; something like "Implement X as a python one liner, using at least three methods from itertools". The good candidates would point out that it really should not be done that way. But puzzle questions like that are silly anyways, so whatever.