> Personally I’d be hard-pressed to move an applicant with a less-than-obsessive attitude to naming forward to the next round.
Why would you assume that impromptu interview code would be the same as production code?
Why would you assume that impromptu interview code would be the same as production code?
The insanity for job applicants is that you never know which kind of interviewer you're going to get until it's too late. Every interviewer has their own nitpicks, yet they somehow believe that their specific nitpicks should be assumed to be universal requirements.
And then hiring managers complain that good programmers are difficult to find, lacking the self-awareness to see how many candidates they arbitrarily exclude for dumb reasons. I've seen people say "I'd pass on a candidate for X" for more or less all X.