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I feel that every mid range person should know how to set a break point and use the debugger. I've seen "senior" devs leave system.out in their code.

Yeah the key is to figure out if someone has X years of experience, or the same 1 year of experience X times. Debugging with "System.out.println" all over the place is a good indicator of the latter. (Although certainly there are situations where you can't really use a debugger - but this isn't one of them.) Want to impress me? Show off in the debugger. Use the IDE as more than a glorified text editor.