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Re:Lessons from 3,000 technical interviews by moxious on Wednesday December 28, 2016 @05:48PM (#13274350)
It would be nice, but I think we'd be hard-pressed to ever agree on what intellectual curiosity even is. It's one of those "I know it when I see it" things. I could evaluate whether a person has it (to my standard) but would someone else accept my call, 5 years later, for their company?
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Re:Lessons from 3,000 technical interviews by nine_k on Wednesday December 28, 2016 @07:50PM (#13274943)
A proxy might be "did you study something non-trivial, without your work forcing you to, in last 1-2 years?"
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Re:Lessons from 3,000 technical interviews by collyw on Thursday December 29, 2016 @04:36AM (#13276470)
I start a lot of things like that (currently trying to learn Rust). A lot of the time other things take over in my spare time and I never actually get anywhere. Having a job where you can put consistent practice into new technologies makes a big difference. I week at work is probably equal to more than a month of my spare time.
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