It does test for having a wider skill set that just memorising a text book.
Ill give you an example of a task that I got in my 2nd/3rd year of employment.
Came into work and was presented with an exotic (for the time) piece of hardware (A0 digitizer) that cost 3x my salary to be asked to.
1 Connect it up and get it talking to a PDP
2 Research and Write the code to allow the kit to interrupt the os and transfer the data to a second program (this is on RT11 which only allowed 1 process normally).
3 Work how to initialize and calibrate the kit
4 Was asked to go and chat with one of the senior engineers and work out how to use the kit to digitize the results from his experiment to produce a 3d representation of the droplet cloud - z axis was done by using a camera with a very tight focal plane
Ill give you an example of a task that I got in my 2nd/3rd year of employment.
Came into work and was presented with an exotic (for the time) piece of hardware (A0 digitizer) that cost 3x my salary to be asked to.
1 Connect it up and get it talking to a PDP
2 Research and Write the code to allow the kit to interrupt the os and transfer the data to a second program (this is on RT11 which only allowed 1 process normally).
3 Work how to initialize and calibrate the kit
4 Was asked to go and chat with one of the senior engineers and work out how to use the kit to digitize the results from his experiment to produce a 3d representation of the droplet cloud - z axis was done by using a camera with a very tight focal plane