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Re:Programmers are confessing their sins to protest a broken... by weixiyen on Tuesday February 28, 2017 @05:24PM (#13758758)
> Do you want to see someone who did an EMT course at a local community college and hit the basic highlights of how to treat different symptoms

I'd ask the 2 doctors to perform the exact treatment on their own kids, look at the outcome, and then decide.

Basically, "build me X" instead of "show me your algorithm skills on whiteboard" is a far better proxy.

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Re:Programmers are confessing their sins to protest a broken... by paxcoder on Tuesday February 28, 2017 @05:27PM (#13758794)
>build me X

Pay me

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Re:Programmers are confessing their sins to protest a broken... by weixiyen on Tuesday February 28, 2017 @05:30PM (#13758824)
nobody has asked me that because this normally happens within the typical 3-hour interview scope, but honestly that's fine too
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