[armchairhacker]

My anecdote with Turing: after a few sets of nonsense questions like the one you described, I was given a nonsense programming challenge. Pretty basic (email address validator), but the instructions said "the function must throw an exception if the email address is invalid" while the sample testcases actually checked that the function returned false (I also remember bad grammar but no other ambiguity).

Anyways, I changed the sample testcases so that they tested the function threw an exception for invalid inputs and didn't for valid ones. Which I probably shouldn't have done, because then Turing said I failed the challenge so they couldn't offer me any jobs, and I'd have to retake after 6 months.

...But then a while later, I get an email that I can retake the test due to "test environment issues" (maybe they realized the test was ambiguous, maybe it was just broken, I have no idea). At this point I already found a job.

Then they started spamming my email and eventually WhatsApp, so I blocked them.