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Re:Programmers are confessing their sins to protest a broken... by jpttsn on Tuesday February 28, 2017 @05:55PM (#13759027)
Whiteboard programming isn't very relevant to day-to-day programming.

Raising kids is doubtlessly even less relevant.

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Re:Programmers are confessing their sins to protest a broken... by kafkaesq on Tuesday February 28, 2017 @10:17PM (#13760721)
Raising kids is doubtlessly even less relevant.

Right. But if done successfully (or even just satisfactorily -- given how difficult of a job it truly is), at least has some correlation with character, and general cognitive fortitude.

And hence -- unlike the ability to withstand repeating whiteboarding sessions -- has at least some correlation with actual fitness vis-a-vis the role being applied for.

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Re:Programmers are confessing their sins to protest a broken... by dagw on Thursday March 02, 2017 @03:06AM (#13772459)
"So you seem to have the experience we're looking for and our engineers seem impressed with your interview. Just one small final thing, a formality really, could you bring your daughter in tomorrow so we can talk to her and see if she's been brought up right?"

If whiteboard testing is frowned upon, I imagine testing a candidates kids would be doubly frowned upon.

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Re:Programmers are confessing their sins to protest a broken... by kafkaesq on Thursday March 02, 2017 @07:17PM (#13779669)
No worries; I was responding rhetorically to a rhetorical questions. I wasn't suggestion that it actually be used as a hiring filter.
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Re:Programmers are confessing their sins to protest a broken... by FullMtlAlcoholc on Tuesday February 28, 2017 @09:57PM (#13760581)
> Raising kids is doubtlessly even less relevant.

That's a bit dismissive. From personal experience, if one isn't a complete failure, raising kids to a satisfactory degree would exercise one's managerial and time management muscles, not to mention their ability to work under pressure/sleep deprivation. Parents of infants

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Re:Programmers are confessing their sins to protest a broken... by yellowapple on Wednesday March 01, 2017 @12:29AM (#13761428)
I reckon that'll change significantly as AI grows increasingly advanced and complex.
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