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Re:We Only Hire the Trendiest (2016) by mcguire on Thursday December 12, 2019 @08:14PM (#21778261)
Honestly, he was brilliant. I was looking forward to working with him. Right up to the point where we handed him a laptop and asked him to write some code. "I know you're looking for language X, but I'm really more comfortable with Y."

Me (who has written my share of Y): "Sure, that'll be fine. Y should be installed."

He proceeded to take 30 minutes to not produce anything resembling X or Y. It was agonizing.

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Re:We Only Hire the Trendiest (2016) by scarface74 on Thursday December 12, 2019 @08:29PM (#21778346)
That’s acceptable. Sit me down to an IDE to write some code and/or stand me in front of a whiteboard to draw out some architecture - like people do in the real world.

But don’t ask me to code on a whiteboard. That’s not a real world scenario.

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