[theoapps]

Sounds about right. This is the norm based from my experience interviewing with startups as an engineer. It shouldn't be acceptable to waste candidates time like this. Yet there is every motivation to since it's basically IP for free.

[fred_is_fred]

What IP are you referring to? How to deal with a 4-way stop sign? There's no IP produced in this guy's story.

[jsprogrammer]

Bring an NDA for your interviewers to sign.