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0 pointsannoyingnoob5y ago0 comments

Its interesting that a history of doing hard things is less important than it once was at interview time. You still have to prove that you can do hard things.

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digikata5y ago

I feel like 20 min coding exercises of today are nearly completely inadequate tools for proving if a candidate can do hard things.

satyrnein5y ago

The problem is, while I love my story of figuring out xmlhttprequest (before it was called ajax) in IE5 so I could rebuild our refresher frame to not refresh anymore because Windows had unexpectedly introduced a clicking sound for every page navigation and our application was now clicking every second driving our customers crazy, that situation will never come up again.

Every day, the specifics of tech experience matter less, and they reduce to "merely" signals of creativity, tenacity, etc.

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0 pointsannoyingnoob5y ago0 comments

Its interesting that a history of doing hard things is less important than it once was at interview time. You still have to prove that you can do hard things.

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digikata5y ago

I feel like 20 min coding exercises of today are nearly completely inadequate tools for proving if a candidate can do hard things.

satyrnein5y ago

Every day, the specifics of tech experience matter less, and they reduce to "merely" signals of creativity, tenacity, etc.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse