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0 pointsskeeter20201y ago0 comments

If you're building some sort of basic, crud app you shouldn't hire this candidate, or at least recognize they are a project - is that what you want?

But if you're doing anything unique, or experimental they might be a great fit.

Most of us are doing the second.

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whstl1y ago

I mean, the interview requirements are quirky and unconventional as heck.

Anyone saying "you gotta check divisibility without math" on the job would get laughed out of the room.

blharr1y ago

The only thing I can think of is they were fielding for them to say "that's not possible" and push back, potentially as a way to gauge if they would reject unreasonable client expectations or something.

joseda-hg1y ago

Then it's a stupid way to check for it, because it was possible and trivial enough to implement in a short time frame with a "rewrite" in the middle and no attempt to meassure pushing back in other ways when the first one failed

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whstl1y ago

Possible but risky in an interview. Some people are really unreasonable.

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0 pointsskeeter20201y ago0 comments

If you're building some sort of basic, crud app you shouldn't hire this candidate, or at least recognize they are a project - is that what you want?

But if you're doing anything unique, or experimental they might be a great fit.

Most of us are doing the second.

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whstl1y ago

I mean, the interview requirements are quirky and unconventional as heck.

Anyone saying "you gotta check divisibility without math" on the job would get laughed out of the room.

blharr1y ago

joseda-hg1y ago

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whstl1y ago

Possible but risky in an interview. Some people are really unreasonable.

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