marloncots's comments

That would be frustrating to tell them your preferences and then be completely ignored. On the flip-side, there are some interviews that are specifically testing how you are at familiarizing yourself with a new-to-you framework or codebase. It might not have been the case here, but for example you can learn a lot about how a person learns and works if you give a skilled React developer a project in a framework that they are unfamiliar with, like Angular. Of course, documentation and other resources should be available during that interview as well.

Again, not sure if that’s what was happening in your case, and giving someone a different OS would only hamper them if they were unfamiliar with the environment. Personally I like the challenge of learning a new framework, so long as that’s the intention of the interviewer.

Like others here, I’ve used it to mostly replace the Stack Overflow and Google type queries I was doing before. It has also been a good replacement for reading through documentation when I’ve started work in a new library of coding language. It’s the best “rubber duck” (other than a real human) that I have ever had.

However, other than sometimes being confidently wrong, I have found that it sometimes will suggest solutions that rely private functions. I assume this is because it’s learning from the source code itself. This is has been especially true in Android SDK libraries. On the other hand, it is impressive when I inform it of the private function use and it corrects itself.