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Re:How I went from failing every interview to a job at Amazon by bogomipz on Sunday April 30, 2017 @05:27PM (#14233943)
Can you elaborate on how the ideas(essentially treating interviewing as a skill) in the blog post exhibit post hoc fallacy?
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Re:How I went from failing every interview to a job at Amazon by minimaxir on Sunday April 30, 2017 @05:30PM (#14233952)
"I got a tech job after doing these things, therefore these things helped me get the tech job."

There is a lot more nuance to tech job interviewing (including luck that you got a good interviewer/interviewer was not in a bad mood), despite the changing landscape which emphasizes trick coding.

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