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Re:What is a coder's worst nightmare? (2014) by nikatwork on Saturday November 21, 2015 @11:04PM (#10609036)
A large portion of modern dev jobs are either CRUD apps or data munging. Knowledge of algos are not necessary for those for those domains.

It always amuses me when I'm interviewing for some vanilla web app job and they start pitching maths questions. It's filtering on the wrong criteria.

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Re:What is a coder's worst nightmare? (2014) by gaius on Saturday November 21, 2015 @11:37PM (#10609100)
No, they are filtering on the criteria of "recently revised this stuff for an exam" i.e. "we want cheap and easy to exploit 23-year-olds but we can't say that in front of HR".
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