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This small post is spot on. The search queries could have been typed by me. One of the important things a developer has to learn is how to actually use Google f

This small post is spot on. The search queries could have been typed by me. One of the important things a developer has to learn is how to actually use Google for software investigation. Especially with the acronyms and very short names that we use all the time, its important to know how to structure your Google queries. Writing Google queries to quickly find the correct solutions is a skill on its own.

dasboth 10y ago
>> Writing Google queries to quickly find the correct solutions is a skill on its own. This is so true, and yet I haven't ever heard of anyone asking about this in an interview. It would be an interesting skill to try and assess, not sure how it would be done though.
- ptrincr 10y ago
  I've been involved in interview processes where candidates were presented with a problem, given a computer and asked to solve it. Usually just by searching for an error message.
  - dasboth 10y ago
    Cool. In many cases that sounds like a much more realistic test than a whiteboard exercise.