So what where the programming challanges?

If it needs 200 lines and they have to write it on paper, of course it doesn't compile.

These or similar: http://prepinsta.com/amcat-automata-questions/

I just want to observe that these prompts are in broken typo-riddled English, with misformatted code.

But it doesn't explain if the test user was able to use a compiler to check his syntax or man pages to check for lib calls. My guess is that it was a better whiteboard test, which usually fails to compile on the first writeup.

Does anyone know of equivalent studies done elsewhere? I’d like to think the percentages would be higher from my peers at graduation, but I suspect they’d be much lower than I’d hope.