> Though it is clearly a simple problem, I've not had to reverse a list in any of the code I've written in the past 20 years. So I am not 'familiar' with the problem. I think I'd be able to solve it pretty quickly under normal work circumstances (even crises), but as many have said here already, working on something you've never done before with three strangers looking over your shoulder is a whole other dimension.

What's your point? You just want to repeat what everyone else has already said? And how low do you think the bar should be? What would be reasonable questions that actually still separate people who can code from people who can't, since reversing a list is too hard according to you?

> It's real and it totally wrecks the interview for the interviewee and the interviewers, who lose out on a potentially good employee.

Or they hire someone else who might actually be just as good or better. It's not like companies have an unlimited number of open positions.