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A comment on Ask HN: Should I focus on building apps or practicing coding tasks to get a job?.

Re:Ask HN: Should I focus on building apps or practicing cod... by motiw on Wednesday October 10, 2018 @01:02PM (#18186793)
If you can pre-verify the need for your app by getting people to sign up for a mailing list or otherwise, then go for the app, otherwise get a job.
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Re:Ask HN: Should I focus on building apps or practicing cod... by mrstefan on Wednesday October 10, 2018 @01:14PM (#18186917)
I'm sorry, I wasn't clear.

I mean: Which is more valuable for interviewers: having couple of working and deployed projects or be good at doing coding tasks? (I have 3 year programming experience)

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Re:Ask HN: Should I focus on building apps or practicing cod... by sh87 on Wednesday October 10, 2018 @01:19PM (#18186964)
At top companies, there's very little chance you are getting through without being convincingly good at CS heavy topics (DataStructures, efficient algorithms, etc.)

Case in point: https://twitter.com/mxcl/status/608682016205344768?lang=en

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