It's an extra filtering mechanism for people who think they can afford to be picky. I don't think it's meant to be universally applicable. I'm only situationa

It's an extra filtering mechanism for people who think they can afford to be picky. I don't think it's meant to be universally applicable. I'm only situationally in favor of this kind of thing, and I'd rather be a footnote/tilt factor than an actual bannable issue in a hiring process. I've got a cursory familiarity with unix/hacker culture, but I don't think I would pass a Google-interview-esque history lesson even if I was able to ace that programming language test that went around earlier this week. Edit: I think it's worth mentioning here that there are no accurate methods of measuring competency in programming save for actually battle-testing them.