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Re:Ask HN: How do I understand the results of my job search? by mettamage on Sunday November 24, 2019 @08:51AM (#21620402)
I do know closures but got rejected on not knowing SOLID. And when the interviewer explained it, the concepts were so easy to understand. I don't get it why he couldn't infer that I'd be able to apply the principles after a bit of practice.
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Re:Ask HN: How do I understand the results of my job search? by badfrog on Sunday November 24, 2019 @09:02AM (#21620469)
Sounds like it's a bad place to work anyway. Hiring people who can recite definitions without evidence of being able to apply the concepts is a recipe for building a terrible team.
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Re:Ask HN: How do I understand the results of my job search? by gherkinnn on Sunday November 24, 2019 @09:07AM (#21620494)
Seen it happen.

Very much like bike shedding: zealously insisting on <acronym> for every triviality, never doing so for more complex situations.

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Re:Ask HN: How do I understand the results of my job search? by gherkinnn on Sunday November 24, 2019 @09:01AM (#21620458)
It makes for a an easy checkbox. No thought on the side of the interviewer required. Quite sad, really.

[x] closures

[ ] solid

Candidate had 1/2. Rejected. Now back to shitposting on HN.

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Re:Ask HN: How do I understand the results of my job search? by treebog on Sunday November 24, 2019 @01:55PM (#21622436)
If they demand you know SOLID then they must be “Uncle Bob” acolytes, which is a strong signal that you should run in the opposite direction as fast as possible
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Re:Ask HN: How do I understand the results of my job search? by raverbashing on Sunday November 24, 2019 @11:00AM (#21621158)
SOLID is one of my pet peeves, because the important thing is to know the basic principles and architect it ok, naming be damned.

(Not to mention they are, in essence, very subjective principles)

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Re:Ask HN: How do I understand the results of my job search? by james_s_tayler on Sunday November 24, 2019 @06:05PM (#21624143)
Also knowing the names of them doesn't mean anything as far as I can tell. I've seen SOLID done well and SOLID done awfully. What counts is can you actually produce clean code that's not wasteful? Apparently knowing the acronym and being able to answer at least one question on it is a proxy for that. IMHO it's a pretty darn poor one, but it seems to be the one everyone goes with.
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