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Re:Big Tech Company Salaries Are Hurting Startups by zerr on Thursday March 30, 2017 @05:54AM (#13994067)
Being/becoming good at CS-riddles (i.e. passing Google-like interviews) doesn't necessary correlate to being A player on the real job. So one might say Google employs a lot of B/C players (who just passed their interviews) where being A is a requirement for the job.
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Re:Big Tech Company Salaries Are Hurting Startups by kudokatz on Thursday March 30, 2017 @08:50AM (#13994874)
Yes, this. Also, if you look at the source of the output that is publicly available, you find that the overall quality is actually much lower than one might expect if they were hiring people that were truly great at making software more of an "art" rather than a blob shoved out the door that passed QA testing.
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Re:Big Tech Company Salaries Are Hurting Startups by oceanghost on Sunday April 02, 2017 @02:09AM (#14016059)
"CS riddles" test exactly what they're meant to.
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