This is great. It would be a good C/C++ interview question to compare these. Of course you can't expect a Raymond Chen level performance, but it should give some insight into experience with low level programming.
Interesting expectations. So you expect the new guy to be famously better than anyone already at the firm. Highly experienced in something 0.0001% of developers ever actually do. Top marks for bike-shedding as well. I guess being on the ISO committee and being responsible for adding some rando feature would be a ring in.
I was imagining you’d show someone the simplified struct representations from the top of the article and ask them to compare/contrast them. Not to know this stuff of the top of their head.