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Re:The dystopian world of software engineering interviews by paganel on Saturday February 15, 2020 @11:17AM (#22336080)
Now I’m curious why they didn’t use dicts, I love dicts. I’ve been writing Python for a living for almost 15 years now and dictionaries and (reasonable) list comprehensions still attract me like they did the first day I “met” them.
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Re:The dystopian world of software engineering interviews by thewhitetulip on Sunday February 16, 2020 @09:12AM (#22341614)
I don't know. It was bizzare to hear it.

To be honest the lady taking the interview didn't understand my code, at least that's what I got. The guy with her definitely didn't understand a line I had written.

Maybe that was her way of protecting herself or something else

But I've never come across any real reason to not use dicts

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