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Haha, that's funny, and an awful idea. At a previous employer, as a hiring manager, I offered candidates an option of bringing in their fully-configured IDE in their own laptop with the language of their choice and I'd give them the problem to solve. Essentially, act in the environment that you've already mastered.

Only one guy did (I had maybe 10 a month) and for some inexplicable reason he couldn't figure out how to create his `main` equivalent in his language in his IDE. He must have been incredibly nervous because we tried "perhaps you could sketch out your thoughts in broad strokes and then we can return to the IDE" etc.




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