I was given such a ridiculous interview question. It had absolutely no relation to real-world practices and was more of a puzzle than anything, testing no practical or algorithmic thinking.

To be completely honest, I was astounded that I was given such an absurd question.

I pretty much got the question right, just a few implementation details that I had to fix, but I ran out of time. Honestly, I don't know how you would be able to solve this problem completely if you hadn't seen it before (and I had not seen it before).

Absolutely useless question, it tests zero conceptual thinking. It reminded me more of bit manipulation.

I liked the recruiters though!

Some ridiculous question involving integer manipulation.