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Re:I'm a Google SWE that's coached 50 through the FAANG inte... by NeverFade on Saturday October 26, 2019 @05:17PM (#21366268)
> I could ask a programmer to build a wooden boat, become a proficient opera singer, or complete four marathons in a year.

You could, but you would get better results by posing more relevant challenges.

If you ask them to become singers, you'd get a whole lot of people with great voices, who may or may not be good engineers.

At least coding solutions to DSA problems has a fairly high (though not perfect) correlation with being a good programmer.

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Re:I'm a Google SWE that's coached 50 through the FAANG inte... by perl4ever on Saturday October 26, 2019 @08:35PM (#21367190)
You can't hire, or even interview, everyone. If you pick some random skill that a reasonable subset of programmers have, then it's entirely plausible that being good at it will correlate with programming skill and supply a population large enough to hire from. But that won't provide you any shelter if it has disparate impact on protected classes.
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