A good way to test this at interview is to put a keyboard in front them and ask them to type as fast as possible. The smart ones will use copy-paste. The even smarter ones will use VB.
Generally the more experienced ones will have written more lines of code (ideally in a very hard language such as Java, further demonstrating their sophistication) and this means they are definitely better.
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A good way to test this at interview is to put a keyboard in front them and ask them to type as fast as possible. The smart ones will use copy-paste. The even smarter ones will use VB. Generally the more experienced ones will have written more lines of code (ideally in a very hard language such as Java, further demonstrating their sophistication) and this means they are definitely better.