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Luckily, no one ever customizes their IDE, source control aliases, has wars over emacs versus vim, or uses an alternate keyboard layout.~

(Being forced to use someone else's machine is a developer hell with so many dimensions.)



I think this profession tends to attract obsessive and neurotic personalities by its nature.


It's not entirely obsession/neurosis either. Several of those things are valid training/familiarity needs and/or safety/ergonomics/self-care needs.

For instance, I nearly avoided very early carpal tunnel issues in graduate school by entirely relearning to touch-type on the Colemak keyboard layout. Sure it only takes a few minutes to switch to the layout on Linux and macOS these days, when I remember where the keyboard preferences are, but it still takes Administrator access and a software install in Windows.

Even "easy", that's still a cognitive load distracting from whatever the actual question was and starting into the actual problem. More importantly, at this point in my career, it's something that I'm going to see this as an immediate sign that employee ergonomics may not be a concern for the person giving such a test, which may speak to other aspects of the work environment.




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