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 ljw1001 on Tuesday April 24, 2018 @06:11PM (#16917101)

I recall one of my friends, when I was at Google, sending me a screenshot of code written by Jeff Dean with an obvious bug. Jeff is, of course, extraordinary, but I wonder how many companies might have passed on him if he submitted that code in an interview setting.

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Re:Things I Learned from a Job Hunt for a Senior Engineering... by animal531 on Wednesday April 25, 2018 @07:48AM (#16920623)

Absolutely. There exists no single human being that does not make any mistakes. The trick is to find the people that make as few as possible, know how to track them down, and that can figure out how to hot-fix them as needed.

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Re:Things I Learned from a Job Hunt for a Senior Engineering... by sp527 on Tuesday April 24, 2018 @07:17PM (#16917507)

This anecdote made my day. Thank you for helping assuage my Imposter Syndrome.

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