Yeah, a 25 line debugging question and a 25 line react .setState() question are far from hazing. See my other comment for a good example of hazing:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17495049

In any case, unfortunately it's something I have to do. And these are the 10% of people that pass a phone screen. We have too many unqualified candidates coming in. As I mentioned in another question -- I have no control over the pool of candidates we get. I'm sure it does screen out people who don't do well under pressure, but oh well, as long as the people who make it through can work on the team I'd say it works.

If you have a better way I can implement within a 30-45 minute in person interview, I'm all ears.