Comment by azthecx

I think this approach is not very favoured by hacker news but it's also what I prefer. It's so much easier to quickly gauge a minimum level of the basic programming knowledge and other sw knowledge by just asking some simple directed questions.

I once got a guy that claimed to have implemented multiple default HTTP JSON REST APIs and somehow had never:

- tested his API with JSON payloads, serialise serialise - never queried his APIs manually or semi automatically (no knowledge of curl, postman or anything similar)