Re:Technical interview performance is kind of arbitrary
by brightball on Wednesday February 17, 2016 @03:07PM
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Attention to detail will usually preclude someone from gluing things together like you describe though. Those are important details to account for and the type of person you're describing is more task focussed (aka - I got it done) than detail focussed (aka - I got it done right).
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Re:Technical interview performance is kind of arbitrary
by Nav_Panel on Wednesday February 17, 2016 @03:22PM
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I would say this dichotomy doesn't quite capture what's being discussed. To my mind, detail focused can still result in an ugly hack of a solution, merely with all corner cases covered.
I think one possible phrase closer to the heart of things would be "aesthetically focused" as well as detail focused -- they care not only about the details of the functionality, but about the "technical beauty" of their solution.