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Re:Udacity lays off 125 people in global strategy shift by scarface74 on Tuesday December 04, 2018 @08:09AM (#18599079)
What’s strange is that people think “knowing how to invert a binary tree” is more important than “knowing how to program”.

Yes, I have a CS degree.

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Re:Udacity lays off 125 people in global strategy shift by TarpitCarnivore on Tuesday December 04, 2018 @11:31AM (#18600905)
> What’s strange is that people think “knowing how to invert a binary tree” is more important than “knowing how to program”

More important: Knowing how to work with other people

I don't care how well you can code, if you can't interface with people and know how to switch up your lexicon there's going to be a problem in a lot of teams. I'm not a programmer, but when I'm in interviews for them I look to see how well they can interact & discuss their projects with me without divulging into intense CS discussion.

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Re:Udacity lays off 125 people in global strategy shift by j45 on Tuesday December 04, 2018 @09:00AM (#18599442)
Having a CS background I agree with this.

Problems exist at many levels of complexity and they can be solved in many different ways. Clever architecture often beats clever programming.

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