That is absolutely not problematic ...

I laughed way too hard at this joke 😂

The only part of your job I find weird is "delivering to production". How is it not the Devs responsability?

Otherwise I would say it is pretty common. Used to be lead backend in my last job and it was a long holiday for my IDE.

The only code I was seeing was on reviews or on my colleagues screen ^^

I loved our test at my last company.

Do an API exposing a fizzbuzz. Make it "prodable".

The definition of production ready is completely for the candidates to determine .

The subject is simple, doable in a few hours. What we were looking at was how code was organised, tests, usage of libs, ...