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Re:Google doesn’t want employees working remotely anymore by someweirdperson on Thursday June 08, 2023 @09:58AM (#36241985)
> I don't hire people who can't type, but most people never learned.

Do you require formal touch typing explicitly, or a certain minimum wpm (how fast?), or both? Do you include iportant charcters (for coding) in the test?

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Re:Google doesn’t want employees working remotely anymore by sneak on Thursday June 08, 2023 @04:17PM (#36248259)
typing speed for coding is irrelevant. the bottleneck with coding is not data entry.

the important thing is that they can type at a high rate of speed. i personally type at around 120wpm which is excessive, but anyone who doesn't type 40-50wpm is obviously not sufficiently skilled as a remote worker.

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