>>>Whoah there Sergey, this is a memory test not a test of resourcefulness. < GD&R >
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>>I find it pointless to remember something that you can easily look up. :)
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>I once failed a tech interview because (in part) I couldn't remember the exact codes to set foreground and background colors in dBase III. I said, it's in the manual under .... etc.
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>There was probably a lot more to not getting the job, but that's the part I remember.

I once had a job interview where I had to do a foxpro test (mainly on syntax and commands, et.). I thought what a waste of time - if you want to know summat you can consult Help (after all, we all have to consult a dictionary occasionally, just to master/fine tune our spoken language). One of the questions was like "Which of the following is used to produce an index to a table?", and included DTOS(). Well, that was confusing as, though it CAN be used for such, that's not its prime or only purpose.

Anyway, I let the interviewer (future supervisor) know my feelings on the test. Got the job anyway :-)