No, I'm trying to make sure the person who is interviewing for a job where they will deal with computers on a daily basis appears to have seen a computer at some prior point in their life.
I wouldn't feel the need to do this if so many candidates didn't fail rudimentary tests. A SWE candidate MUST be able to write the function min(), in the language and tooling of their choice. But in an interview, a sizable fraction cannot. (The actual bar is far higher than min(), ofc., but min() ought to be trivial.)
I wouldn't feel the need to do this if so many candidates didn't fail rudimentary tests. A SWE candidate MUST be able to write the function min(), in the language and tooling of their choice. But in an interview, a sizable fraction cannot. (The actual bar is far higher than min(), ofc., but min() ought to be trivial.)