I was recently job hunting and chose to do coding problems in python when possible, even though I have 7+ years C# experience. For the first interview it got m

I was recently job hunting and chose to do coding problems in python when possible, even though I have 7+ years C# experience. For the first interview it got me into trouble because I actually didn't know how to read args from the command line and didn't have access to the internet! For all my other interviews (mostly Java jobs), I'm glad I used python for the simple reason that solutions tend to require a lot less boilerplate code than C#. I typically have to erase/change a couple lines as I'm solving a coding problem and using a terse language helps reduce this distraction. I don't think the interviewers minded and in one case I think using python gave me some (undeserved) mystique.