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Re:Why Software Maker Fog Creek Is Helping Its Competitors H... by tomjen3 on Thursday March 05, 2015 @04:21PM (#9153896)
Worse: they demand that you can code, and don't consider it their problem to teach you how to do that.

Anyway I thought it was well established that years of experience is a bullshit measurement anyway and you should just apply no matter what - worst thing happens, you end up getting hired.

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Re:Why Software Maker Fog Creek Is Helping Its Competitors H... by Retra on Thursday March 05, 2015 @04:45PM (#9154033)
The worst that happens is that you have a bunch of go-nowhere time-wasting interviews with people who can't properly evaluate you anyway.

That time is certainly valuable to me.

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Re:Why Software Maker Fog Creek Is Helping Its Competitors H... by tomjen3 on Thursday March 05, 2015 @04:56PM (#9154123)
That would be bad, but consider the time wasted if you ended up being hired by them.
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