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Re:Follow-up to “The dystopian world of software engineering... by matz1 on Saturday February 22, 2020 @04:57PM (#22393605)
I think you missed the point of this interview style. This style of interview is scalable, predictable, efficient and effective. It is useful in that way.
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Re:Follow-up to “The dystopian world of software engineering... by Apocryphon on Saturday February 22, 2020 @05:19PM (#22393715)
It's scalable all right, but the other points- especially the latter two- are being debated in this thread.
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Re:Follow-up to “The dystopian world of software engineering... by matz1 on Saturday February 22, 2020 @05:22PM (#22393745)
Right, which misses the point of having this interview style in the first place.
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