While there exist companies that overdo it and expect weird things like that, I believe the majority of companies expect something simple — if you’re applying t

While there exist companies that overdo it and expect weird things like that, I believe the majority of companies expect something simple — if you’re applying to be a <rolls dice> Rails backend developer, you would probably be asked to build some simple API with a couple endpoints. And if you are applying for that position, you should know how to set up Ruby (and you should probably have it installed on your laptop, even if you aren’t doing much coding outside of work/for fun/in open-source projects), install Rails, create an app, and write the simple endpoints. The OOP seems to be struggling with something like that (and “virtual environment” smells very Pythony to me — even though Python packaging is a trainwreck, someone applying for a Python job shouldn’t need 3+ hours to set things up for a simple project.)