For context to my above comment re university course. The final project we had to do was make a very rudimentary room reservation server/client on the terminal. Java, however you wanted to store the data was fine, TCP sockets were the parameters given.
It took me all of a week to finish it. Lots struggled to even begin. We were given 10 weeks.
I didn’t know much then but I read the docs and figured it out.
If companies would start hiring people who are fully experienced and qualified but can't do the monkey dance of performing live coding, maybe they would find these types of programmers again...
Wasn't the workflow there always to take the example code of whatever library or framework it was and then customize it?
I could definitely never start a react or android or c# or whatever application from scratch with no resources. Nor would I want to because why.
Works with C I guess though. Given that the contract is so small.
But that also breaks down the moment you want to write C for some uC, and then there's tons of boilerplate again you just pull from the sdk example.
Personally, "know how to code" is basically having the logic an reasoning skills to read and understand and apply documentation for whatever subject you need for this job.
If you have never written a web app in your life, but you can follow next.js tutorials and customize them beyond the tutorials afterwards, then you're at the point where the only thing you need is more time or more docs based on what you need to do at work.