From the article :<p>&quot;but for many jobs there are too many variables involved day‑to‑day to allow the construction of a representative work sample. All our technical hires, whether in engineering or product management, go through a work sample test of sorts, where they are asked to solve engineering problems during the interview.&quot;<p>Plus a number of other things according to the article.<p>Sounds like they are agreeing with what I said (at least to some degree), but still asking for something anyway.