[dreamweapon]

Someone asked about brain teasers. They do get asked, you have to deal with it, whining in an interview that this type of question gives no useful hiring indicator won't get you hired.

Or to put it another way: if your hiring culture enshrines shallow, game-show style intellectualism along with such a condescending, "just suck it up" attitude towards candidates... then don't whine that you can't find decent programmers.

[FLUX-YOU]

It's just a culture filter. If they have data backing up their methods, that would be nice to see and compare to Google's hiring process that rejected puzzles and brain teasers. I personally don't think there's any correlation with brain teasers and programming ability though.