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Re:In defense of coding interviews by krainboltgreene on Sunday May 29, 2022 @04:45AM (#31547544)
I'm going to blow your mind but a ton of important software was written by people who have a hard time explaining these things.
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Re:In defense of coding interviews by mikebenfield on Sunday May 29, 2022 @11:07AM (#31549714)
Also a ton of important software was written as a giant mess of spaghetti code, or with horrible security vulnerabilities.
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Re:In defense of coding interviews by krainboltgreene on Monday May 30, 2022 @08:56PM (#31565145)
I've never been tested on my ability to not write spaghetti code or write security vulnerabilities in my 15 years doing many many interviews.

Unless you're suggesting that knowing the performance of a loop helps with that?

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Re:In defense of coding interviews by mikebenfield on Tuesday May 31, 2022 @10:27PM (#31577370)
What I'm suggesting is that "Important software has been written by people who couldn't/didn't do X" is not a very strong indication that X is not a valuable quality that employers should want in their engineers.
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