[nano9]

I understand what the halting problem implies, what complexity is, what Turing machine means and why they are an abstraction for algorithms, and the basic common memes of programming such as using a stack and a heap, IEEE 754 floating point numbers, 2s complement binary numbering, and so on and so forth.

Yet I don't know a lick of Go. If I were to open up a Hello World tutorial for Go during the interview, would I honestly still have a shot?

[pclmulqdq]

I think people who are really into "do the job for an hour" interviews don't understand this. Some skills (particularly programming languages) are just really easy to learn. I learned go in a week for a consulting job. If I had to do an interview in go, I would not have gotten the job.

[wolframhempel]

Then how about you spent the week learning Go and then come interview?

[pclmulqdq]

Because there's a big difference between doing a week of unpaid work hoping to get a job and doing a week of paid work after you already have it.