I’ve never been through an interview cycle where candidates didn’t lie about this, so I assume pretty high. It always boggled my mind that people would claim programming skills but not be able to write hello world.
If its not the pressure cooker, this is trick question and i am going to blast you for missing the return and void in parenthesis types question then we can partially blame the candidate.
Many of us have faltered like this once or twice unless its an outright lie kind of situation.
I’m not a fan of trick questions. It’s usually something as simple as “you have 10 minutes write out a program in any language you like that takes in a string and prints out the reverse.”
The idea is just a litmus test and I don’t think it’s useful for filtering anything other than liars. I never had someone completely freeze up.
