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varunagrawal

I like this way of doing things. Some people are brilliant and very good at general communication but just don't interview well due to various factors. This sort of free form conversation should put them at ease as well.
We don't see this happening for tech jobs, and at the worst, interviewers will still ask programming language specific questions. Plus "meaningful patch" might mean different things to different people.

Ask HN: Should we waive technical interviews if candidate contributes?

If a candidate contributes a code related patch to a company's open source project, should that serve as enough justification to the interviewer that the candidate has technical prowess in order to waive a technical interview?This would IMO be a better gauge of technical quality over white-board interviews.

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Re:Let’s write a simple Kernel (2014) on Friday October 20, 2017 @05:47AM (#15514594)
Am I the only one who's pretty much done with reading these sort of rinse and repeat articles about just writing a bootloader in the name of a kernel?

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