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Re:Are Chinese and Russian Developers More Skilled Than Amer... by teknologist on Friday February 10, 2017 @01:05AM (#13613576)
There's a difference between creating clean maintainable application architectures and writing quick 'n' dirty algorithms that sort data structures. We look for both of these things when hiring; sites like HackerRank just test for the latter.
Re:Are Chinese and Russian Developers More Skilled Than Amer... by bjourne on Friday February 10, 2017 @03:27AM (#13614003)
Do you have any evidence to show that the two skills aren't intertwined? Because in my experience, those who have been good at developing algorithms have been just as good at working with full applications.
Re:Are Chinese and Russian Developers More Skilled Than Amer... by teknologist on Wednesday February 22, 2017 @12:54AM (#13703370)
Only anecdotal, but the lack of evidence could be why interviewing is such a mess for software engineering roles.