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Re:Engineering whiteboard interviews: yay or nay? by throwawaymath on Thursday August 09, 2018 @06:07PM (#17728983)
> I guarantee that 80% of working "rockstar coders" will fail (but not before whining, crankily, about how unfair it is that you would actually make them do such a useless thing, since, y'know...never actually documents anything IRL, dude).

Are you sure you're not just replacing one stereotype with another here? Do you think it's fair to say that 80% of people who do well at whiteboard coding value documenting their software so little that they'd be fail at it while disparaging the concept?

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Re:Engineering whiteboard interviews: yay or nay? by sidlls on Thursday August 09, 2018 @06:57PM (#17729263)
I think that was hyperbole for emphasis, not a strong generalization as you imply. I've met and worked with plenty of programers up and down the scale of ability who think "code is self documenting."
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