[DavidWoof]

I think the "sendOnce" question is fine. Software development is just different than other professions, and you get a lot of candidates who talk a good show but can't actually program at all. For a decent dev, this isn't programming, it's typing.

But all the "ok, now add this feature..." stuff is just a sign that the interviewer is an insecure asshole. And you get insecure asshole interviewers in other professions as well, asking about obscure laws or diagnoses.

Software is still a bit of a craft, and it's perfectly reasonable to ask a job seeker on a construction site to go hammer a nail. But nobody is going to follow that up with a bunch of "OK, now do an L-joint" just to show off their own knowledge.