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Re:When hiring senior engineers, you’re not buying, you’re s... by gerbilly on Monday January 21, 2019 @11:43AM (#18961493)
> I think you are conflating simple and easy.

I like to state it as complex vs. difficult.

Finding a bug in ten thousand lines of crappy VB code code is 'difficult', but not fun.

Writing an space/time efficient implementation of level set topology optimization is complex.

Senior developers usually love complex problems, but hate merely difficult problems.

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