I was pretty nervous at my interview; no test was mentioned until the day, at which time (after the rest of the interview) I was presented with two sheets of xm

I was pretty nervous at my interview; no test was mentioned until the day, at which time (after the rest of the interview) I was presented with two sheets of xml-style configuration code for the company's proprietary build system. The task was super simple - basically just duplicating some of the configuration and renaming some values to create another job, but at the time I just froze and couldn't see it. I managed to get some sort of answer out, but wasn't happy with my response. They claimed that they were meant to give this to me in advance as a homework question and somewhere the ball got dropped, but I had a feeling they wanted it to be a more on the spot thing considering the problem was so simple. Thankfully I had the wherewithal to ask if I could take the problem home with me after the interview. When I got home and looked at the problem with fresh eyes I facepalmed so hard. I wrote up the correct answer and emailed it over to the company recruiter, hoping she would pass it along to my interviewers, but didn't get my hopes up. I guess she did, since I ended up getting the job. I still cringe a bit about how I just blanked on that stupid question. Thankfully I got ramped up really quickly once I actually started the job and had no problem figuring things out after that.