Every body is asked some thing close enough. At higher levels, often focus is not on coding, but enough depth of design where a person of such profile might end up educating the interviewer - while satisfying their requirements.

That being said, ability to solve coding problems efficiently (not necessarily spit A* graph algo in sleep), but a decent close to real life coding challenge is fair game.

Well, you might want to check guido's twitter before making that bet.

What exactly am I supposed to check in his Twitter?

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