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I was asked to code 2048 in an interview at a major video game company. I don't necessarily think it's the most difficult thing ever, but I also don't think it's that easy if you've never even thought about it before. I knew I wasn't going to be able to completely solve it in 45 minutes and remarked solving it was more difficult than I thought it would be.

The interviewer replied, "yeah, I tried it at home and thought it was pretty hard too."

Seems like a pretty dumb question to ask in an interview unless you expect the interviewee to flounder.