I can understand that, there are better ways to test someone’s working knowledge or ability to find it. Personally, I’ve worked with HR people and it seemed more personality based than technical based in my experience.
I've been a professional C, Perl, PHP and Python developer.
I'm an ex-sysadmin from the late 20th century.
These days I do more Javascript and CSS and whatnot, and promote UX and accessibility.
I'm not advocating "refusing to do a task", btw. I was more getting at demonstrating (without being too pedantic about it) that you can evaluate what you need to do to solve a problem, and how you might go about finding a solution. For something like sorting, Googling or looking on Stack Overflow is likely to be sufficient for most problems. If it was something esoteric, then more effort might be required.
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I can understand that, there are better ways to test someone’s working knowledge or ability to find it. Personally, I’ve worked with HR people and it seemed more personality based than technical based in my experience.
I'm not advocating "refusing to do a task", btw. I was more getting at demonstrating (without being too pedantic about it) that you can evaluate what you need to do to solve a problem, and how you might go about finding a solution. For something like sorting, Googling or looking on Stack Overflow is likely to be sufficient for most problems. If it was something esoteric, then more effort might be required.