My coworkers and I used curl, and the linux kernel, as part of interviews. The candidate was asked to download the source to the Linux kernel during the interview; occasionally they would curl it to the tty. (We don't ding them for this, as I do it all the time myself… In fact, if anything, it provides a great opportunity to see if they know about reset, or the details of their mistake (e.g., why did that have so many odd effects on the terminal? why did the title change? etc.)) Surprisingly, the binary output would screw up tmux beyond repair by reset. (There would be characters printed outside the "terminal"'s area, for example. We suspect tmux has a few bugs because of this.)
