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Re:The Engineer Crunch by danielweber on Tuesday February 18, 2014 @03:45PM (#7260916)
I think I lost one job because I used emacs and they used vi.

I'm not wholly disappointed, because 1) I finally got around to using vi, spending a solid week using it and only it, as my homework[1] for the company, and 2) you don't want to work someone that only hires clones of themselves.

[1] They didn't assign it to me, but I'm always looking for something interesting to do, and since I was serious about wanting to work for them I did it to ease my eventual on-boarding.

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Re:The Engineer Crunch by markrages on Tuesday February 18, 2014 @06:08PM (#7261372)
A company-specified text editor is a indicator of an unbearable degree of micromanagement.

Be happy you don't work there.

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Re:The Engineer Crunch by danielweber on Wednesday February 19, 2014 @08:32AM (#7263491)
They did a lot of pair-coding, so I'd see a common development environment as acceptable.
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Re:The Engineer Crunch by mattgreenrocks on Wednesday February 19, 2014 @03:22PM (#7265963)
Sounds like one of those 'boutique' consulting agencies that likes to build 100% mandatory pairing into their costs when billing clients for their sake.
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Re:The Engineer Crunch by S4M on Tuesday February 18, 2014 @07:16PM (#7261416)
Are you sure you didn't get the job because you used emacs? I can't see why that's a reason for not hiring you. As markrages says, if this is true, it's some inconceivable degree of micromanagement.
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