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jrogers8835 • Edited

Fair question, I don't work for google but I've done tons of coding interviews for the company I work for and here are a few issues I ran in to when I tried domain coding problems:
1) if they provide the company value, then they're supposed to be paid
2) often time domain related problems require too much background... you spend half the interview answering questions about domain concepts instead of seeing them perform
3) the domain itself could be proprietary or the related code.

Generally speaking domain is easy enough to teach in my experience. When I'm interviewing I want to strip away they business stuff and see if you can convert a problem to working code. How efficiently you do that (and communicate what you do) speaks volumes.