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Re:Google's “Director of Engineering” Hiring Test by empath75 on Thursday October 13, 2016 @11:28PM (#12705962)
If they didn't know it, I'd want to dig down into whether the understand the specifics of their particular language at least.

I actually just sat down in a meeting with a dozen programmers, some of them with decades of experience, and half of them didn't know what functional programming was.

Re:Google's “Director of Engineering” Hiring Test by krzyk on Friday October 14, 2016 @04:23AM (#12706755)
And the half that didn't know where much worse programmers than those that knew?

Your example shows that not every programmer has to know that.