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I disagree. Consider: You're hiring for a data science role, and the candidate doesn't know what an array is. Consider: You're hiring for a senior systems soft
by 100721 4y ago
I disagree. Consider: You're hiring for a data science role, and the candidate doesn't know what an array is.
Consider: You're hiring for a senior systems software development role, and the candidate doesn't know what an instruction is.
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- denton-scratch 4y agoWould you agree that what an instruction is depends on context?
- ovebepari 4y agoYes, ofc, he is applying for the "senior systems software development" role so there is our context.
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- squeaky-clean 4y agoI don't think knowing what an array is would be something you can trivially Google. Sure you can look up the set of words that make up the definition, but that's not knowing what it is. Something trivially google-able is like not knowing the syntax for generating permutations of a sequence in Python. But not knowing the idea of permutations would not be trivially google-able.
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- jonny_eh 4y agoIt comes down to what one considers "fundamental knowledge" that one needs to do the job. If you claim to be a programmer, but don't know what an array is, you're probably not actually a programmer. But not knowing esoteric data structure that one may encounter once in their career is not really indicative of anything.