[Jacquass12321]

Very much this, my company has been taking a deeper look at its hiring processes lately, and I know there are explicitly comments on our small coding problems that say things like

"Candidates might get hung up on the gotcha part of it: the actual snip calculation. That's not something we care about, but that the candidates will likely think we care about. We should consider just giving them the formula (or letting them use a pre-defined "snip" method)."