[ryanwaggoner]

You certainly will encounter harder things that you need to invent (not just re-invent) during the course of any job.

Ha! You'd be surprised at how many "programmers" spend years just cutting and pasting code without really understanding any of it.

[silentbicycle]

Yeah, but aren't some interview questions specifically intended to screen out those kinds of programmers before they do too much damage?

[bcrescimanno]

Sure; but there are a ton of places they can get a job as a "programmer" having only interviewed with a non-technical manager. These people become experts at this type of interview and are able to do what I call, "dazzling with bullshit" quite effectively.