As someone with background in Mechanical Engineering, software interview questions as above seem so wild and absurd to me. Why would you care about someone knowing the intricacies of CSV or bash? I would expect a good engineer to provide best possible solution to your problem within an hour of googling / research. I really don’t see the point of asking such specific questions on interviews as it has no correlation with finding a good engineer. I wish software field would move closer to interview process of other engineering disciplines but it seems to be getting wilder each year.
The amount of times I've had to write my own sorting algorithm in my career: 0.
The amount of grep/sed/awk I've used? Countless.
Someone who is familiar with how powerful and flexible these tools are is likely to accomplish something that can benefit from them quicker than someone who isn't aware of them.
Also in my experience software devs that shy away from the command line because they don't like it rarely pan out.
