There's at least 4 kinds of C programmers today: - People who work on projects which require low-level access, potentially mixing in assembly code (drivers, OS

There's at least 4 kinds of C programmers today: - People who work on projects which require low-level access, potentially mixing in assembly code (drivers, OS, etc), porting to different architectures, real-time, high-precision, control of timing, lack of MMU, etc - People who want to perform specific actions, like a specific OS syscall, that may not be exposed [easily] by a higher level language in the way the programmer wants - People who want to write very fast/efficient code - Legacy code maintainers Not too long ago I busted out some C to create a stripped binary for a job interview round. The interviewee needed to diagnose what the binary was doing and why and report back. Not all that common for most programmers today, but I expect a good amount of detail from a senior-level systems candidate.