This has also been my experience, yeah. My interviewers were very interested in watching me rifle through that core dump. (: Ultimately, it feels to me like se

This has also been my experience, yeah. My interviewers were very interested in watching me rifle through that core dump. (: Ultimately, it feels to me like selecting for people who both can navigate existing code and interrogate a running system (or, minimally, one that had gone off the rails and left clues as to why) is the right way to go. It has interesting knock-on effects throughout the organization (in, like, say, product support and quality assurance) that are direly understated.