>so it's not too much to ask for a senior dev doing low-level work. Actually for a senior dev, it is too much to expect low-level work they haven't used in 10

>so it's not too much to ask for a senior dev doing low-level work. Actually for a senior dev, it is too much to expect low-level work they haven't used in 10 years. The analogy I quite often give is that you wouldn't assess a French teacher on their Latin class from 2005. The bottom line is that you probably asked a useless question that was great for teaching the CS foundations in school, but that hasn't ever been used once in their careers. People discard useless information, especially smart people because they prize the efficiency that their memory can use in place of useless information.