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reason enough to fail the interview
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Sure but as I said, that's a knowledge question and not an engineering problem to solve. They're very different and unless you work in software consulting, you're not gonna get a problem that looks remotely like that from a client.
You actually get them all the time, because the programmer is more deeply knowledgeable about the features they wrote and can identify gaps better.
Boss: "Can we move the widget to the left side of the page?"
Programmer: "Sure but that means when the sidebar opens it will obscure the widget, making it hard to see both at the same time. Do we want that?"
Boss: "Hmm I didn't consider that. Let me ask the UX team what they think."
"Can we move the widget to the left side of the page" is not in the same category as "what is a hash" though?
I don't think the "what is a hash" question was a great example, but paired with the rest of the comment and context, I understood their point