Things I Learned from a Job Hunt for a Senior Engineering Role

Re:Things I Learned from a Job Hunt for a Senior Engineering... by gaius on Tuesday April 24, 2018 @01:45PM (#16914781)

So what is the interviewer supposed to do to find out if you can code?

I’ll take someone who gives an idiomatic answer over someone who reinvents the wheel anyday. Who is likely to be more productive on the job?

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Re:Things I Learned from a Job Hunt for a Senior Engineering... by xyzzyz on Tuesday April 24, 2018 @01:56PM (#16914897)

Depends if the job can be done using one-liners from existing libraries.

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Re:Things I Learned from a Job Hunt for a Senior Engineering... by kd5bjo on Tuesday April 24, 2018 @02:06PM (#16915012)

That depends on whether or not the job entails inventing new kinds of wheel.

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Re:Things I Learned from a Job Hunt for a Senior Engineering... by gaius on Tuesday April 24, 2018 @03:40PM (#16915884)

Let's be honest: most commercial programming jobs don't. And the person with a thorough working knowledge of the standard libraries is in a better position to do it anyway.

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