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Re:My Google job was tedious and pointless by nradov on Tuesday October 17, 2017 @01:53PM (#15493057)
I don't work at Google, but code refactoring is critically important in the real world. It's not intern work.
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Re:My Google job was tedious and pointless by away2017throw on Tuesday October 17, 2017 @02:38PM (#15493525)
Why not, like, test refactoring skills? Mind blown!
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Re:My Google job was tedious and pointless by alexasmyths on Tuesday October 17, 2017 @02:35PM (#15493498)
Re-factoring is probably 80% of the job.

New projects are rare, so very few are writing a lot of code from scratch.

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