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Re:I applied for a SW role at FedEx and had to take this biz... by recursive on Monday February 12, 2024 @02:51PM (#39349494)
Merely knowing I'm doing it wrong isn't actionable. In addition, I need to know what to change to do it right.
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Re:I applied for a SW role at FedEx and had to take this biz... by rvnx on Monday February 12, 2024 @02:56PM (#39349570)
You can ask for precise details about the implementation or the weirdest bug they had encountered.

Great tech guys are able to explain to you complex systems quite easily; not by making them overly complex, but quite the opposite, to keep them simple, and regarding the bug you can understand the depth of troubleshooting the person went through.

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Re:I applied for a SW role at FedEx and had to take this biz... by recursive on Monday February 12, 2024 @09:12PM (#39353481)
I do ask questions like this. You might be surprised to learn that there are a fair number of candidates who can answer stuff like this, but really struggle to write any code at all. I'm not totally sure how to account for it.
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