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Re:I’d Pay You $500k a Year, but You Can’t Do the Work by adviceadam on Tuesday May 02, 2017 @01:43PM (#14248637)
Six minutes for them to explain the questions, you to make sure you have the question right, and then answer and explain your reasoning doesn't sound too crazy does it? Even for easy questions.

Anyways, thanks for answering!

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Re:I’d Pay You $500k a Year, but You Can’t Do the Work by MrLeap on Tuesday May 02, 2017 @02:04PM (#14248877)
When you include that stuff, you're right! I'm just talking about the thinking -> writing step. 6 minutes is a really long time for something like fizzbuzz. That's 360 seconds. The second hand has to go around the clock 6 times. If your script is 6 lines of code that's a MINUTE per line. FizzBuzz's lines are so self similar that's real weird for me to imagine.

My 6 minutes didn't include them explaining the question or them going over my answer. I didn't really explain my work. I did talk a little while I wrote, but after I finished he just went through my code line by line himself.

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Re:I’d Pay You $500k a Year, but You Can’t Do the Work by adviceadam on Tuesday May 02, 2017 @03:03PM (#14249515)
That's fair enough, I probably should have thought that it was just the time for answering the question, not the entire time, based on the context. Cheers!
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