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Re:Steve Ballmer's incorrect binary search interview question by hi-v-rocknroll on Tuesday September 03, 2024 @12:12PM (#41436376)
Yep. Pigeonholing by narrow thinking individuals who aren't accustomed to ambiguity or lateral thinking, especially when exhibit talents in more than just technical areas, a person becomes "nontechnical" to a nonzero proportion of technical people while remaining "too technical" for a large fraction of business people.

PS: Recruiters generally come from the same cloth as car sales and sports, so they're not usually going to be the sharpest pencils in the drawer.

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Re:Steve Ballmer's incorrect binary search interview question by carlmr on Wednesday September 04, 2024 @05:46AM (#41443734)
>PS: Recruiters generally come from the same cloth as car sales and sports, so they're not usually going to be the sharpest pencils in the drawer.

Aren't you committing a similar mistake here, saying that recruiters can only recruit? At my former job one of the recruiters was an engineer for 20 years. He said he just wanted to do something different after all these years.

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