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There are a lot of different schools of thought on administering programming tests to new hires. On one hand, you’re hiring them to program, so it might be nice to see if they can actually do it. On the other hand, given the time constraints of most interviews , it’s nearly impossible to give them a meaningful test.
These days, most languages have some variation on the “structured exception handling” concept. Exceptions get thrown inside of a “try” block, and then a search begins for a matching “catch” block, specific to that kind of exception. 
Each type of exception can be handled differently, which allows minor errors to print messages for the user, while fatal, state-corrupting errors can lead to the application exiting and hopefully not damaging any data.
A good developer catches all of the possible exceptions. By that standard, the contractor who gave Martina this code must be one of the best :
Dec 14