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Re:Harder programming questions do a worse job of predicting... by gedy on Monday February 18, 2019 @03:37PM (#19194192)
> On the other hand, I genuinely do feel theory is really important.

My beef with this in interviewing is that a huge chunk of modern programming work is developing UIs - and user interface theory and skills are treated like some softball thing. You ask UI-related questions to interviewers and half the time you get some shrug "oh we use whatever", etc.

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Re:Harder programming questions do a worse job of predicting... by joshuamorton on Monday February 18, 2019 @03:47PM (#19194287)
This depends highly on the domain. I'm the only person on my team with any level of frontend work in the past ~2 years. And when I did, I was able to consult with UX experts and designers.

I can't say that theory is more universal than frontend, though anecdotally, for me, it is. But ui isn't universal.

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