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Re:Lessons from a Silicon Valley job search by mrfusion on Wednesday March 19, 2014 @12:44PM (#7429914)
You sure you wouldn't prefer someone who's really good at implementing binary search trees ...
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Re:Lessons from a Silicon Valley job search by integraton on Wednesday March 19, 2014 @01:04PM (#7430119)
There are plenty of people who are great at CS fundamentals yet write messy, excessively complex, and/or over engineered code. For many software roles I'd much rather have someone who can write clear, maintainable, and performant code first, with deep knowledge of CS fundamentals only a requirement depending on the nature of the role and product.
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Re:Lessons from a Silicon Valley job search by rhizome on Wednesday March 19, 2014 @01:39PM (#7430384)
There are plenty of people who are great at CS fundamentals yet write messy, excessively complex, and/or over engineered code.

Augh, PTSD trigger.

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Re:Lessons from a Silicon Valley job search by markcampbell on Thursday March 20, 2014 @11:36AM (#7436172)
The one thing that you have to remember is that no one wants to write bad, unmaintainable code.
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