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I don't think this is the right takeaway. Yeah, it's a problem if programmers have to copy-paste solutions from Google in order to do anything. However, sometim
by jchw 4y ago
I don't think this is the right takeaway. Yeah, it's a problem if programmers have to copy-paste solutions from Google in order to do anything. However, sometimes people just search it because it's helpful and quick. Does not necessarily mean they don't understand it. Could be something as simple as clipping something out of Go slice tricks, or as advanced as "JS debounce function."
For a novice who is struggling, they might literally just copy-paste the solution, but for someone more advanced, I expect they will read it, try to gather the bits of nuance (some of it may be realizations like "oh, I need to use len-1 here because this bound is inclusive", or maybe something more practical, like, "oh, I need to decide if my debounce function should fire on the leading or trailing edge of the debounce.")
If they're literally copy-pasting the whole solution nearly verbatim, without really knowing what's going on, then maybe it's just not a very good interview question.