[TUHS] Interview question

[arnold at skeeve.com]

Larry McVoy <lm at mcvoy.com> wrote:

> The /bin/sh stuff made me think of an interview question I had for engineers,
> that a surprisingly few could pass:
>
> "Tell me about something you wrote that was entirely you, the docs, the
> tests, the source, the installer, everything.  It doesn't have to be a
> big thing, but it has to have been successfully used by at least 10
> people who had no contact with you (other than to say thanks)."
>
> Most people fail this.  I think the people who pass might look 
> positively on the v7 sh stuff.  But who knows?

How many people who failed this question did you hire anyway?