I’m suggesting that it’s better to test these in your coding interview. What’s not worth testing is factual knowledge that you can look up. You would be absolu

I’m suggesting that it’s better to test these in your coding interview. What’s not worth testing is factual knowledge that you can look up. You would be absolutely stunned how many people cannot give you back the correct answer even after you literally give it to them. If you don‘t know some programming and I give you code and explain what it does, that still doesn’t help you. There’s some tiny signal of your ability by asking you to memorize and regurgitate something; and maybe a tiny bit more signal in this question by implicitly testing “how do you respond to unexpected technical details in a high stress situation”. But they aren’t worth the trouble. You could measure both much more directly. You’d get more detail about their coding ability by directly asking about code they’ve written and know well.