I got my first job (25 years ago it so) after reading a c++ book and doing the assignments. To get this job I had to take a c++ test made by the most experience

I got my first job (25 years ago it so) after reading a c++ book and doing the assignments. To get this job I had to take a c++ test made by the most experienced developer there. The code I eventually wrote had none of the tested language features. These days I often work with a mix of C, C++, Python and Rust. I try to avoid c++ as people writing c++ (IMHO) are not writing code that is easy to understand. They usually write code which is efficient but hard to understand. Even when effectiveness is not a part of the requirements.