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Re:When hiring senior engineers, you’re not buying, you’re s... by patientplatypus on Sunday January 20, 2019 @06:03PM (#18956190)
This is the only correct answer. White boarding is to coding what Foosball is to soccer.

In my last in-person interview they asked me a bunch of trivia that was a simple google search away - so of course, why would I bother memorizing those things? I got a dear john letter back saying I wasn't smart enough or some such, and it's like "oh great, being called an idiot by an idiot". And that's most of my interviews if I can get past head hunters that don't even bother to do their homework. Do you know "go long"? How would you solve this "cash-ay" problem? Yuck.

Sometimes I just wish people had some common sense and were reasonable and could think. But by and large people just do not give a crap to be good at their job because people by and large are just lazy and suck. Call me a pessimist but man are there some stinkers out there.

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Re:When hiring senior engineers, you’re not buying, you’re s... by masonic on Sunday January 20, 2019 @08:03PM (#18956731) 

  White boarding is to coding what Foosball is to soccer
My preferred analogy is that whiteboarding is to coding as rotisserie baseball (playing GM) is to playing baseball.
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Re:When hiring senior engineers, you’re not buying, you’re s... by nradov on Sunday January 20, 2019 @06:23PM (#18956282)
That reminds me of the infamous "You, Jeepies?" programmer interview.

https://thedailywtf.com/articles/You,-Jeepies

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