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Ability to communicate your ideas is an important skill. Why do you disagree?

• cageface 15y ago
  Walking trees on a whiteboard is a poor test of this ability. I'd much rather hear how somebody would decompose a real world problem into workable abstractions. A knack for designing clean architectures counts much more than algorithmic cleverness in 9 out of 10 actual programming jobs.
  • chalst 15y ago
    I hope it is not excessively elitist to think that programmers should aim to do both. Also, the two skills are not independent.
    • cageface 15y ago
      I honestly think they are to a large extent. Many architects are not mathematicians. And vice-versa.