My phone screen coding question, designed to be obvious and quick, was to do pow(base, exp). I would always tell the interviewee that they could use any languag

My phone screen coding question, designed to be obvious and quick, was to do pow(base, exp). I would always tell the interviewee that they could use any language they are comfortable in. Thinking ahead, I wanted to be prepared for the eventual, 'well I'll use Whitespace!'. So I sat down during a hack day and did whitespace, Piet, LolCat and tried to do BF. Piet was the most enjoyably hard. Figuring how to store variables was a nice brain test, I really felt I had acomplished things. Whitespace is super easy in comparison and I couldn't figure out how to do a variable length outer loop in BF.