I get to interview candidate team members for the malware research team I'm on. We write a lot of code, but we're not really software engineers. Accordingly, I

I get to interview candidate team members for the malware research team I'm on. We write a lot of code, but we're not really software engineers. Accordingly, I only ask people very basic things in an interview to see if they can use the tools they list on their resume. Often times it's something that can be handled with a single list comprehension (though no one every does that). It is astounding how few people can do what their resumes say. I'm sure it's stressful if you don't know what you say you do. Then again, if you list 6 programming languages on your resume and can't xor decode a string in the one I let you choose from that list, you deserve to sweat a little.