[xauronx]

I would also note that if you're/they're using a recruiter, the recruiter often does this stuff. A recruiter contacted me for a local start up I was interested in, so I sent my resume along and they "made some small adjustments" and sent it back. They added things like "MS Access", "Agile Development", etc. Some other things just randomly pulled out of a hat.

As a side note; I can tell from your tone that you are indeed a cynical old man. The interview processes you describe are intentionally trying to make the person look stupid, and not ascertain what they know.

"Said person could not tell me what the default shell was under CentOS.", how is that relevant to being able to use a linux command line? I understand that many devs probably think being able to cd/ls counts for linux command line ability, which obviously isn't enough.

[Rami114]

That followed up from asking if they knew what Bash was. Is it wrong to expect them to know it's the shell and it's generally the default? I suppose my post must make me come across rather horrid, but I'm generally quite nice in interviews! :) It's not about looking stupid, I gladly take 'I don't know' or 'good question, I want to look that up' as an answer. It's embarrassing for everyone to ask what are generally easy questions on the topic that was on the CV and get a total blank stare.