I understand and agree - im sorry i don't mean to attack you personally, its more of a satire about FAANG interview processes. My first comment was responding to the quote about difficulties hiring SREs at Google and their interview process in particular (the quote in the parent comment came from Google). It wasn't intended to be read as a position one way or the other on any and all coding questions or interviews - I don't think there are any simple black and white rules there. The text justification question is listed somewhere on leetcode as being commonly asked by Google and is a bit more involved than a simple leftpad or "do you know how to code" sort of question.
Apropos of nothing, I went and did that leetcode problem - Getting the algorithm took me about 10 minutes, figuring out how I'd messed up my fenceposting took another 25, and figuring out what they wanted for the last line took me about an hour. Ugh.
