If you onboarded in a time before this, or you aren’t practicing for an interview, it is very likely you wouldn’t just pass the interview, like you wouldn’t likely pass a physics college exam right now even though you did when you were in school.
Nevertheless, I gave the interviewer a detailed, step-by-step, golden answer she was looking for, and she's obliviously impressed. After a few minutes, however, youthful stupidity^W^Wmy integrity got the better of me and I told her that I'd seen the problem before. So I got a 2nd trick problem, one that I didn't know nor studied for, and naturally didn't arrive at the golden solution.
I didn't get called back.
If you were to ask me to solve a problem that's on my study list today, believe me that I've got the selling part down pat now.
And everyone is doing this now, it just isn’t a certain few bad recruiting agencies and applicants. Heck, even the good applicants (the ones that you want to hire anyways) have to do it to get through the loop.
One of my coworkers and I often joke about how we'd never pass our current hiring test, and yet we're among the highest paid and most productive people at the company. I've expressed this to the hiring manager and he still thinks it's a good approach. They have literally said they want more people like me... so they brought me into the hiring process, but I disagreed with them on almost every candidate, so they brought me back out of the hiring process. Some people don't know what they want out of interviewing a candidate, they just go with the status quo interview and assume they're going to feel good or bad about someone based on their results.