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Re:Employee #1: Coinbase by shaldengeki on Wednesday September 28, 2016 @03:07PM (#12600348)
Exactly. The question is effectively equivalent to "have you recently taken an elementary number theory course", which, apart from being not at all a brutal mathematics problem, is totally irrelevant to what makes a good customer support hire.

The whole interview process comes off as having been designed by someone who had no idea what they were doing.

Re:Employee #1: Coinbase by nickpsecurity on Wednesday September 28, 2016 @05:48PM (#12601620)
The worst part is this is implied by Olaf himself where he points out that he just lucked out on that problem in a way he doesn't expect to repeat. He accidentally passed the contrived problem unrelated to the job. They were just a hair from eliminating the good candidate in the interview.