[eonw]

when i interviewed at yahoo as a full stack web developer, i was dismissed after getting the a single tree related question wrong. was a trivial 'trick' question about balancing certain types of trees, similar to this article. having been through that, i wouldn't have wanted to work there based on that being the bar of entry.

[JBReefer]

Seeing as Yahoo! completely lost the race to hire the "best and brightest," and is now teetering on the brink of dissolution, I'd say that you:

a. dodged a bullet b. should basically do the exact opposite of every part of their hiring practices

[cwilkes]

You dodged a bullet there. Maybe you can use this as a canary to tell if a company is one you want to work for based on questions they ask.