I wrote the "function to reverse a string" in a job interview once. Then the interviewer reminded me that strrev() had been part of the standard C library since K&R.

I'd been programming in C(++) for ~15 years by then and had never had the occasion to reverse a string. I still wonder whether that makes it a good job interview question, or a terrible one. Some of both probably.

And yet, some people argue that you shouldn’t ask a developer to align 3 “if” and 1 “for”!!!

The energy spent arguing that those 4 instructions in a row “are not a mark of someone who can write code” would have better been spent firing them.