Guido van Rossum joins Microsoft

Re:Guido van Rossum joins Microsoft by purpleidea on Friday November 13, 2020 @03:21AM (#25080228)

> They can afford to be choosey. So they can try to find not only the person who can do the job but also do it BEST.

Selecting people based on how well they can code some linked-list traversal, in a web editor, while someone is timing them is not a good metric for overall "best". In fact you might reject candidates that think more about larger design problems, and overall your code might suffer.

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Re:Guido van Rossum joins Microsoft by totony on Friday November 13, 2020 @05:40AM (#25080984)

>in a web editor

This is the part I dislike the most. They usually disable copy-pasting too because they know it's that easy to google so you can't just code in your IDE and paste.

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Re:Guido van Rossum joins Microsoft by therealdrag0 on Sunday November 15, 2020 @01:56AM (#25098929)

Isn’t it usually both? My compy’s on-site has multiple coding sessions and multiple design sessions.

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