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Yes. It seems bizarre to me to apply for a programming job without knowing how to program, but when I just screen based on resumes there’s usually 10% who can’t do basic things like “write pseudocode to reverse a string” or a fizzbuzz loop.

So my brief exercise has saved me from wasting interviews on those folks. Of course it’s not foolproof and people can have a friend write it, or use ChatGPT, or whatever. But it helps.