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Posted by: Hylebos
Bullcrap.
Microsoft asks those questions. Google asks those questions. Facebook asks those questions. Amazon asks those questions. There are a ton of companies that ask those sort of oddball questions to get a better glimpse of how you think and how you solve problems and how you would work in a team.
Naturally they ask your technical "how would you reverse an array?" questions alongside them, but simply knowing how to code is not enough.
I can state with a fair amount of certainty that Microsoft, Google, and Facebook do not ask those questions. (Source: I worked at Microsoft and interviewed at Google within the last year, and I have several friends who were hired recently at all three companies.) Maybe a few oddballs might still cling to that interviewing style, but by and large, tech companies have come to realize that "how do you move Mount Fuji" is not the kind of question that helps determine whether someone is a high-quality engineer.
If a tech company wants to know how you think and solve problems, they'll give you a problem that you would be expected to solve on the job. There's no reason to beat around the bush with unrelated, hypothetical riddles.
I would think designers, at the very least, would still be asked weird stuff like, "Design an alarm clock for a blind person," simply to test their ingenuity.