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Re:Jane Street – Our software engineering interviews are cha... by skinfaxi on Thursday November 12, 2026 @11:49AM (#50470284)
> (we also ask the candidate to open a PR against the repo just to see if they know the basics of git -- you would be surprise how many people cannot do it).

How does that work? Git has no concept of pull requests.

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Re:Jane Street – Our software engineering interviews are cha... by robkeane on Thursday November 12, 2026 @02:37PM (#50472996)
Extremely funny for OP to advertise this gotcha style question that's built on a misunderstanding of the tools

Doesn't surprise me at all that many developers can't do this, most professional software development isn't happening on Gitub.

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