I ask people to write strlen() for me. (If they don't know C, it's a showstopper, btw). Supposedly senior candidates with ten years of experience have failed t

I ask people to write strlen() for me. (If they don't know C, it's a showstopper, btw). Supposedly senior candidates with ten years of experience have failed this. It's truly amazing. "Oh, I haven't written code in a while" is a common response. That's a show-stopper, too -- what, you want to /manage/ me or something? And you can't write code? God forbid.