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Re:Coding Interview Tips by adamnemecek on Wednesday October 16, 2013 @03:06PM (#6561474)
But would you really make hiring decisions based on either of those projects? Software development is 'relatively' easy when your project is <1000 LOC. It becomes harder as the project grows. And it's the ability to grow the project what you should make the hiring decisions on.
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Re:Coding Interview Tips by mattstreet on Wednesday October 16, 2013 @03:57PM (#6561784)
Yeah but judging someone's ability to code by several good <1000LOC projects is probably better than the sorts of coding problems you have time to give someone during a coding interview.
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Re:Coding Interview Tips by adamnemecek on Wednesday October 16, 2013 @04:19PM (#6561912)
That's actually a good point I have not though of before. I considered your Github account to be the place where you'd show off your l33t sk1llz, as opposed to show off code similar to the code you'd write during interviews.
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