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This presentation is bullshit. You have no evidence, nothing valuable to show, just spurious subjective opinions. You've put up a straw man and now ar
by thedz 11y ago
This presentation is bullshit. You have no evidence,
nothing valuable to show, just spurious subjective
opinions. You've put up a straw man and now are trying
to knock it down assuming we are idiots. I've seen
enough.
Whoever said this is a dev I'd refuse to ever put into an interview again. Hell, I'd be reluctant to put this dev into any meetings requiring communication skills.
- volume 11y agoStated in this exact way, word-for-word is quite extreme. Could the author be paraphrasing? I'm probably nitpicking like a nerd. Even if he were paraphrasing it wouldn't take away from the overall message.
- JackMorgan 11y agoI wrote it down the quotes four years ago, just because I knew I'd want to write about it at some point. I didn't want to "get back at them", just turn it into something good.
- PopeOfNope 11y agoI had a slightly different takeaway: who asks a candidate to perform a slideshow presentation at an interview?
- santaclaus 11y agoI've heard of Pixar requesting presentations for plain old development positions.
- ubernostrum 11y agoReplace random dev in an interview saying this, with Linus on a mailing list saying this, and sadly the response to it will be very different. If you wonder why the random dev in the interview thinks this is acceptable behavior, that's a clue.