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Re:Don’t do interviews, do discussions by 01100011 on Monday November 08, 2021 @12:03AM (#29146248)
Should companies set their hiring bar to match the average difficulty of problems they encounter, or should they try to find people who can solve their difficult challenges?

Is your view of programming that good programmers spend the majority of their time writing boilerplate code or doing grunt work?

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Re:Don’t do interviews, do discussions by Philip-J-Fry on Monday November 08, 2021 @03:45AM (#29147287)
Your average software developer isn't going to be solving the most difficult problems.

My view isn't that good programmers spend the majority of their time writing boilerplate code. But my view also isn't that the average programmer _isn't_ doing that.

I'd expect way more demonstrated knowledge for an interview in a higher level role than an mid level developer role. But the higher you go the less you actually need to demonstrate that. Why?

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