Re:Guido van Rossum joins Microsoft
by emddudley on Thursday November 12, 2020 @01:33PM
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Because these problems can have some subtleties that are hard to get right in a high-pressure environment. Some interviewers will completely write you off for small mistakes.
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Re:Guido van Rossum joins Microsoft
by cannabis_sam on Thursday November 12, 2020 @01:48PM
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That sounds interesting! Do you have any examples?
I would have thought that if you actually needed people to perform under pressure, you would design your test explicitly around that, instead of using “comfort with the whiteboard” as a proxy...