It would appear that if certain web-dev companies wish to test job applicants' technical savvy, they just google "web dev technical testing" or something, yoink the first vaguely-interesting-looking result, and say "build this".
Six months ago [at time of writing, in May 2022], I was interviewing with, let's say, "Company A". and I wrote https://github.com/tyrant/toy-robot, a toy robot designed to navigate across a 5x5 grid. So far so good. A few days ago I began interviewing with Company B ... who asked me to build a "truck simulator". I skimmed the test's exact instructions.
The only major difference seems to be that its grid is 7x7.
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