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potatolicious
on June 27, 2014
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The Worst Programming Interview Question
But why? One puzzling thing about our industry is our obsession with finding suitable proxy indicators for programming ability.
But we can test for programming ability directly.
raldi
on June 27, 2014
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Oh, I agree. I just thought it was interesting to think that a bad question might be improved by giving its answer away.
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But we can test for programming ability directly.