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Re:Harder programming questions do a worse job of predicting... by erik_seaberg on Monday February 18, 2019 @05:14PM (#19194976)
Those incentives are misaligned. Not every law school grad can pass the bar.
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Re:Harder programming questions do a worse job of predicting... by alboy on Monday February 18, 2019 @06:06PM (#19195306)
They may very well be, but is the quality of signal truly worse than that which an interviewer can extract from a few hours of your writing code on the board?
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Re:Harder programming questions do a worse job of predicting... by erik_seaberg on Wednesday February 20, 2019 @03:32PM (#19211682)
There are people with degrees who can't code. I'd prefer we don't hire them, so we ask for coding.
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