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They cannot reverse a string even using the API call?

If so are these people who have held down a programming job before?

I assume the question is something along the lines of "Implement a strrev in the language of your choice", not "Use the strrev equivalent in the language of your choice".

Even with this addendum, there is a grey zone:

    reversed_string = string[::-1]

Is it just using the equivalent, or a new implementation?

If I was the interviewer in that case I would probably accept that, with note that the person seemed clever. Then I would ask another harder question that I would hope would trip them up if they didn't understand iteration.

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