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Never really understood it. I think people are afraid that CS/EE people after chilling out for 3,6 or 12 months will forget everything? Do you know the reasonin
by wkoszek 10y ago
Never really understood it. I think people are afraid that CS/EE people after chilling out for 3,6 or 12 months will forget everything? Do you know the reasoning?
- samfisher83 10y agoIf you have 2 candidates one that has been working and one that hasn't which would be less risky to hire? Despite what you hear on HN we get plenty of resumes to pick from.
- wkoszek 10y agoI would argue that there's no correlation. This exercise is pretty easy: If I gave you money for a year to keep you and your family alive, and gave you free time to do whatever you want, do you really think you'd come back as a worse expert after a year? Some people will take a year of and do nothing; some people will be bored to death after 3 months of doing nothing and for the next 9 months will learn tons of skills, new programming language etc. I'd not disqualify them because of that.