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It was a fun read, thank you! Your submission is the real-world example of "work smart, not hard"
by linkdd 5y ago
It was a fun read, thank you!
Your submission is the real-world example of "work smart, not hard"
- devinsit 5y agoThanks, glad to hear you enjoyed it!
- jeffrallen 5y agoUmm, yeah. But if I found this while doing background research on a job candidate I'd have to think twice about if this guy was really someone I wanted on my team... be careful what you brag about cheating on, lest you let people see the real you.
- programbreeding 5y agoOr it shows that he's open and honest. And that's definitely someone I would want on my team.
- blacktriangle 5y agoThe use of cheating here is pretty tongue-in-cheek. I'd say the thought process exhibited in this is the exact kind of person you want to hire. Somebody who keeps their old work organized in such a way they can leverage it rather than start from scratch over and over again is hugely useful.
- tgsovlerkhgsel 5y agoWhat cheating? All he did was a really low-effort submission.
- jeffrallen 5y agoLow effort submissions are what wasted most of my time code reviewing at one job...
- ineedasername 5y agoNot sure I would consider this cheating. At most if I was reviewing a resume from the person I'd think "coder reused old code, built on it to fulfill a new set of requirement. okay"
- jeffrallen 5y agoHe called it cheating, not me. I'd call it more taking advantage of the situation (he did too), which I like in my sales colleagues, and less in my engineering colleagues. I'd hire him for sales.
- ineedasername 5y agoTalk about not wanting to hire someone: this person used the word playfully, not in the literal negative doing-something-wrong sense: but you're actually saying you ::like:: cheating in some of your staff as long as it makes you money I wouldn't want that comment associated with my name. Not to mention the endless amount of false expectations and customer complaints that causes, wasting engineers or devs & post-sales support staff endless hours dealing with the fallout. And nothing good happens to a company's culture when cheating in one area is fully embraced.