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Funny, I got those sort of questions on my first phone screen, and I called them "pulse-checkers". As in, checking the candidate has a pulse and hasn't blatantly lied on their resume.

I would expect anyone who's been through a CS101-level class to do small decimal<->binary conversions in their head, and anyone who's administered a UNIX system to know how to terminate an option list.




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