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Re:Hiring Is Broken: What Do Developers Say About Technical ... by NeverFade on Thursday August 15, 2019 @10:44PM (#20711708)
"I developed a simple popular tool that many of your employees are using, therefore you must offer me a job that requires far more complex skills that I cannot demonstrate."
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Re:Hiring Is Broken: What Do Developers Say About Technical ... by collyw on Friday August 16, 2019 @05:12AM (#20713417)
Simple is good in software engineering. Far too many unnecessarily complex solutions out there.
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Re:Hiring Is Broken: What Do Developers Say About Technical ... by NeverFade on Friday August 16, 2019 @06:08AM (#20713654)
Simple solutions for simple problems. More complex solutions for more complex problems. It's quite possible that the problem Homebrew solves is much simpler than the problems Google is hiring engineers to solve.
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