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by ryanmcbride 480 days ago
That's what it means, and people use it as an example not because it's like, some sort of super difficult unreasonable challenge, but because it's completely unrelated to the work you'd be doing on the job like 99.99% of the time. It's like interviewing for a line cook and asking them to make a spatula.