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Re:'Clean your desk': My Amazon interview experience by mcguire on Thursday December 08, 2016 @12:34PM (#13132152)
It's gonna kinda suck to be the engineering team where nobody actually learned calculus.

Or the surgical team where everyone "collaborated" on basic anatomy.

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Re:'Clean your desk': My Amazon interview experience by conanbatt on Monday December 12, 2016 @07:18PM (#13163381)
How would you know nobody learned calculus?

You are comparing people that dont know to people that know with that allegory. In a collaborative setting you would be able to see what people build, teach each other, and learn.

A team with 5 people that know 20% calculus can produce much better results than a team where 1 person knows 100%. And sometimes they wouldnt be able to produce a result at all.

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