[jacknews]

My first job, I had an hour or so to learn vi, and show what I'd learned, then write a basic program (not much more than hello world) in C, of course using vi.

Second job similar actually, only this time it was their awful proprietary word processor (a Wang clone I think) and it's macros ans PL.

Then for a big-name computer company, a full day of IQ tests, personality tests, 3-4 interviews, whiteboard pseudo-code, team meets, etc - but all candidates processed in a single day and an answer a few days later (I got the job) - not the same as today where it's spread over weeks or months and you might be ghosted at any stage.

[bee_rider]

What would they have done if you already knew vi? Make you use ed?

[jacknews]

Maybe emacs, so it's lucky I didn't know vi, lol.