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Re:Ask HN: Can engineers from Google or Facebook solve white... by kamaal on Tuesday August 14, 2018 @12:59PM (#17759646)
Even if it didn't, that's really like an exception to most common use cases of those tools.

Which is precisely why testing candidates on such questions doesn't make much sense.

I understand every once in a while something like that needs to get written, but again that's like an exception.

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Re:Ask HN: Can engineers from Google or Facebook solve white... by Pissompons on Tuesday August 14, 2018 @01:27PM (#17759923)
As an employer though, what do you want to happen when your employee runs into an exception? Do you want them to flounder and have no idea how to solve it or do you want them to figure it out by doing some mildly novel design work?
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