Your “unless” covers a huge swath of this industry, at the low end and at the high end. Excluding places that do that leaves you with what exactly? Boutique shops filled with 20 year veterans?
What do you mean by the "high" end? I would consider this sort of interview style necessarily precluding such a place from being considered a high-quality work-place. Not only is it a miserable way to interview, it's not an effective signal for engineer quality beyond rapid code snippet production.
> Excluding places that do that leaves you with what exactly? Boutique shops filled with 20 year veterans?
We are on a VC forum—I imagine small shops focused on quality are quite common here.
What do you mean by the "high" end? I would consider this sort of interview style necessarily precluding such a place from being considered a high-quality work-place. Not only is it a miserable way to interview, it's not an effective signal for engineer quality beyond rapid code snippet production.
> Excluding places that do that leaves you with what exactly? Boutique shops filled with 20 year veterans?
We are on a VC forum—I imagine small shops focused on quality are quite common here.