I generally agree with your interpretation, but as the author wrote this later in the piece: > If I give you a challenge to take home, my expectations are even

I generally agree with your interpretation, but as the author wrote this later in the piece: > If I give you a challenge to take home, my expectations are even higher. If you get a week to code something with full access to Google, etc… There’s no excuse for giving me a solution that is anything less than top-notch. I saw that as an implication that he expected a candidate to be able to recall regex basics from memory.