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> What's wrong with "I'd use a library" or "I'd Google it"? I meant if that’s their only answer and they aren’t able to design something like a linked list fro
by prepend 6y ago
> What's wrong with "I'd use a library" or "I'd Google it"?
I meant if that’s their only answer and they aren’t able to design something like a linked list from scratch.
Usually the answer went like “I’d of course use the built in class Foo, but for purposes of this answer, yadda yadda yadda”
Sometimes I would get someone who would argue over wherever it’s a dumb question or try to explain how they don’t know how to make getters and setters because they would just Google the answer. So that’s a bad sign for culture, teamwork.
IRL you don’t want people making their own linkedlists, just like no one should actually write FizzBuzz.
But it’s helpful to filter out the number of non-programmers who apply for programmer jobs.
- collyw 6y ago>But it’s helpful to filter out the number of non-programmers who apply for programmer jobs. I keep hearing about these people, but I have never met one in 20 years.