The translation to code is important. I have seen people who can describe a solution like that but when they come to write it as code struggle with managing sim

The translation to code is important. I have seen people who can describe a solution like that but when they come to write it as code struggle with managing simple mutability/immutability, scope, iteration, and conditional execution concerns. Better basic ability tests include a problem that requires an explicit nested iteration, because some people seem to struggle juggling two loop contexts in their head at once. What I struggle to understand is why this sort of thing still serves as a useful weed-out screen in our industry, even for people whose resumes indicate masters degrees and multiple years of experience in development organizations. But experience shows that there really are people who are ‘faking it’.