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by prof_hobart 3652 days ago
I agree with that.

It's more that a lot of companies are looking for much more than someone's ability to simply churn code out these days, and if this place was one of those then it simply sounds like this guy wasn't suitable for that role.

If, on the other hand, the company was actually looking for a coder to be able to write 100% perfect code on a whiteboard, and was planning on marking them down for syntax errors, then he's probably better finding out what sort of company they are during the interview than after accepting a job.