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Yet more cheap shots at people trying to do an impossible job. Lots of technical people make completely unrealistic proposals for alternatives, but in truth, you need to get some feel for a person's attitudes, goals and intentions.

Agreed that these aren't ideal questions, and that the whole exercise makes hackers ticked off, but as someone who has on occasion gone for the technical hire and been proven wrong, I can see the intent in some of these, and it's not of zero value.

If you think you can do it better, fine, do it. become a manager, hire and fire, and see how your methods work.