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Re:Ask HN: Reality for the Average Developer Outside Silicon... by jolmg on Thursday February 21, 2019 @05:59PM (#19221428)
> Interviewing candidates in both Malaysia and Indonesia, if the higher paid senior ones can reverse a linked list, it's considered quite good.

You must be exaggerating, right? What can a developer do if they can't even reverse a linked list? I'm genuinely curious how a developer like that can work.

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Re:Ask HN: Reality for the Average Developer Outside Silicon... by muzani on Thursday February 21, 2019 @08:48PM (#19222424)
They can build apps, WordPress sites, ecommerce frameworks, read documentation, and connect APIs. They can probably build some databases and get the idea of normalizing tables.
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