If those who interview employees can test programmers just by seeing their response to the famous “show me the code” statement, is it wrong if I went and asked them “is your project good enough for my code”?

The code I was referring to was a stylesheet that I was asked to write at 9dot9 during an interview that was totally unexpected.  I was sent to a person in another department who was using Alt+Tab to switch between his Gmail and cricket scores. When he finally shifted his attention towards me he asked me to override css rules. Not liking my argument about the css being horrible and my using css rule precedence as a workaround for the problem, he proved I wasn’t capable enough. He then asked me whether I had ever maintained a blog. By that time, he had made his browser point to his blogspot which seemed more like an adspot. I typed in my URL. When he saw the URL, he opened an excel sheet and identified my URL as the second one on his list of bloggers to contact for paid opps. He forgot about it a second later, and started comparing our blogs. He said I was foolish not to place ads wherever there was space. My only response then was a polite goodbye.

So I did ask that question that I wanted to at one point, and everything seems to have worked out well.