We are always more interested in their problem solving skills. We give them a very basic exercise like here is a drop down. As you can see, the items in the drop down are not in alphabetical order. We want you to change this at the sql level. How would you figure out how to trace back to the sql query that drives this drop down? It’s amazing how many supposed web developers won’t open the developer tools without our prompting them. And then, when they get in there it is obvious they have little familiarity with the developer tools. How exactly do people do web development without using the developer tools? I’ve been doing this for 23+ years and I can remember what it was like in the bad old days before firebug was created. Why would anyone want to continue to work in that past? Anyway, off tangent, it is interesting how even a very simple exercise, with lots of hand holding, can show a lot about people’s abilities to think through a problem logically.