Etymologically speaking, I feel like the first number was most likely "two". The idea of quantifying things wouldn't be relevant unless you had multiple items to bother counting.

Yes, I was thinking it had to be 2, because 0 is a bit of an abstract concept, and you don’t really need 1 as a concept before you already have numbers. I assumed we were talking annoying abstract thinking interview questions.

I was quite confused to find all the comments going on about salary.

You were not alone.

My reaction was “I’m applying for. CS job, not for a job in philosophical mathematics.”

1, it has to be 1 right?

I was exactly there too.

Same here.