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Re:Hiring Is Broken – My interview experience in the tech in... by dagw on Wednesday April 27, 2016 @10:35AM (#11580756)
Worst case scenario, something custom is written, and yeah it's not the best way and yeah it takes 100 milliseconds instead of 4, but who cares?

The person who has to try to understand what the hell is going on and how to add new features after the original developer has moved on to other things probably cares quite a lot. The difference between a good programmer and a mediocre programmer is not that one can solve the problem and the other can't, but that the good one can solve the problem in an easy to understand and easy to maintain way.

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Re:Hiring Is Broken – My interview experience in the tech in... by Apocryphon on Wednesday April 27, 2016 @02:43PM (#11583332)
And the difference between a good organization and a mediocre one is if a crappy custom solution is caught during code review.
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