[bartonfink]

I had a friend blow a job interview on something very similar. The company gave a description of an app and asked that he code something up over the weekend and host it on github for them to see. He wrote up a pretty basic app that did what they wanted, but the poor guy completely lost his head and couldn't remember `git init`, so they passed. Whether that's fair or not is another ? (I think it was, given he was interviewing for a senior role), but it's important to keep in mind that even though you may have been a productive maintenance engineer, working within an established codebase, basic infrastructure-level stuff that comes up once a project can still bite you.