Re:I strive to be a 0.1x Engineer (2016)
by heromal on Wednesday November 09, 2022 @10:50PM
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I had a recruiter ask me a few days ago, on behalf of the HM, how many lines of code I've written in my career. I told him that's a very weird question, and said nothing else. Needless to say, they're passing on me.
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Re:I strive to be a 0.1x Engineer (2016)
by eurasiantiger on Thursday November 10, 2022 @12:26AM
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It might have been an estimation task, akin to a Fermi problem.
Re:I strive to be a 0.1x Engineer (2016)
by ianmcgowan on Thursday November 10, 2022 @02:07AM
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That's charitable, but leads to a new "how many manhole" questions - how many programmers in NYC will write fizzbuzz on a whiteboard this week?