> A lot of candidates come in with their environments just very poorly configured, run into weird dependency errors, mismatched installed versions, no linting or syntax highlighting set up in their editor because they don't actually ever code on their personal computer, etc. It's not uncommon to spend half the interview watching someone debug their dev environment, or struggle to remember the basic syntax of their favorite framework since they aren't working on the same codebase that they're used to.

Now THAT reflects the actual daily experience of working programmers.

All the maddening little configuration options to get things working correctly, and seem to take up far more time than actually writing code to solve customers problems.