On asking job candidates to code

Re:On asking job candidates to code by joantune on Tuesday March 15, 2016 @12:42PM (#11290952)

"It turns out that most people would put together a Rails app with more lines on their Gemfile than lines of actual code they wrote. Worse"

- how is this worse then rewriting the wheel? write code only when you must

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:On asking job candidates to code by Detry322 on Tuesday March 15, 2016 @12:50PM (#11291012)

I would argue it contributes to huge bloat. People pull in huge powerful libraries to format a single date. In addition, a vulnerability in a library you pull in could compromise your application. Even deeper, a sub-sub-library (i.e. one you didn't even add yourself) could have a vuln that affects you.

[ Parent | on HN ]