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by suresk 1032 days ago
Your last 2 sentences highlight the crux of it, I think - in the first sentence, you say "C developer" and in the second just "developers".

This actually does seem like a great icebreaker-type question for a C developer. I'm less convinced every developer should be able to go into that level of detail if they are doing Javascript or Python or whatever. Ideally they'd be able to at least reason through some of this and demonstrate some understanding of some of this, but I'm not sure it is a great icebreaker question for all developer roles.

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Javascript doesn't even have ASCII - every string is UTF-16.