In my experience the new ,,cool'' startups prepare interview questions in python/ruby/..., give some time, and don't measure the time spent by the program. In

In my experience the new ,,cool'' startups prepare interview questions in python/ruby/..., give some time, and don't measure the time spent by the program. In this setup writing the same code in C++ (including the right STL headers) is a pain in the a. I remember that when I selected C++ as my language for interviewing, I was strongly punished, because my interviewer didn't understand why it takes 10 minutes to do something relatively simple (that is just a few line of code in a higher level language). After that I switched to using Ruby in my interviews, and passed easily.