Dunno, there are very few universal knowledge checks that would work across the entire industry, but my two absolute baseline standards for anyone who would be

Dunno, there are very few universal knowledge checks that would work across the entire industry, but my two absolute baseline standards for anyone who would be coding are 1) knows how to version control, and 2) can comfortably traverse a graph. To be fair, knowing the acronym "DFS" itself is not necessary - it reflects badly on the industry itself (not necessarily the candidate) that we're so bad at even agreeing what our shared jargon is.