Nonsense. Maybe you haven’t noticed, but there’s an entire industry of “tech interview test prep” that exists solely to coach candidates to answer these ridiculous questions. Any signal you might have once detected from trivia like this has now been thoroughly gamed.
What you’re doing here is arguing a truism: any candidate who memorizes the answer to the shibboleth is better than the ones who don’t, because it makes you happier that they memorized the shibboleth.
What you’re doing here is arguing a truism: any candidate who memorizes the answer to the shibboleth is better than the ones who don’t, because it makes you happier that they memorized the shibboleth.