The subtext is that Google's excessive emphasis on engineering over pretty much any other discpline is what led them into this mess. The parent comment was a joke

> Why would a brand manager role interview have leetcode questions?

I took the original poster to mean that there should be leet-marketing questions for brand manager positions, like there are leetcode questions for developer positions.

> Why would a brand manager role interview have leetcode questions?

(i think OP was making a joke)

It's not just that they greenlit this change, it's that it's far from the first time they've pulled something like this. It is utterly baffling to me that there isn't someone in senior management who can say "What? No, that's utterly stupid, you can't do that".