To be fair, the "nickel in a blender" type of problems have been actively banned from engineering interview at Google for many years. That doesn't mean that there aren't a few holdouts that still use them, but there is an active effort to eliminate them.

I sit on an engineering hiring committee and I can't really think of the last time I saw one of the ridiculous puzzle questions show up in an engineering interview. The WSJ article was pretty ridiculous.