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While I agree with the general sentiment of your comment, it comes across as saying that only coding ability matters. (You might not have intended it to come a
by jamesrcole 10y ago
While I agree with the general sentiment of your comment, it comes across as saying that only coding ability matters. (You might not have intended it to come across that way, but it can easily be interpreted as such.) Going on that interpretation... surely part of hiring them to write software generally (but perhaps not necessarily always) includes things like ability to effectively work, and communicate, with others.
- fao_ 10y agoThat's part of good coding ability: Being able to understand the requirements and implement them
- chrismealy 10y agoAgain, being good at interviews doesn't correlate with being good at programming. It doesn't even correlate well with people skills. There are plenty of people with great social skills in general that are bad at interviews. Interviews are mostly terrible and weird.
- taurath 10y agoAdd a question: "How do you make sure you're working on the correct thing?"