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Re:Hiring Myths Common in Hacker News Discussions by goi on Tuesday October 27, 2020 @06:26PM (#24912751)
The industry isn't nearly as accepting of them as it was ten or twenty years ago.

To those downvoting: if Linus Torvalds was 30 years younger and just as competent, yet completely unknown, do you really think he wouldn't have a lot of trouble getting hired at a FANG company because of his poor social skills?

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Re:Hiring Myths Common in Hacker News Discussions by rodgerd on Tuesday October 27, 2020 @08:27PM (#24913634)
If you mean that the industry is less likely to allow a self-diagnosis of "it's the autism" as an excuse for sexual harrassment, sure.
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