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Unfortunately even the most prolific and very successful CEOs and management in our industry often fail to understand this. A couple years ago I was rejected f
by devmor 4y ago
Unfortunately even the most prolific and very successful CEOs and management in our industry often fail to understand this.
A couple years ago I was rejected from a 3rd round interview for a very large company that should have known better for the primary reason that my "coding challenge" exercise didn't meet an arbitrary lines of code minimum, despite meeting all of their requirements.
And of course we have the recent example of a certain chief Twit firing engineers based on LoC.
- shepherdjerred 4y ago> an arbitrary lines of code minimum, despite meeting all of their requirements. There's no way this is true right? Why would anyone care about LoC for a coding challenge?
- bitL 4y agoSome "old school" management styles measure LoC and make hiring/firing decisions based on that. Really.
- tartoran 4y agoSomeone should enlighten them that less LOC is good in solving a problem, granted that the code is also more maintenable due to smaller surface area and no bad shortcuts were taken. Yes, it’s hard for management types to get that, perhaps because most of them want the problems entrenchability creates, and that for their own … benefits.
- heromal 4y agoI had a recruiter ask me a few days ago, on behalf of the HM, how many lines of code I've written in my career. I told him that's a very weird question, and said nothing else. Needless to say, they're passing on me.
- eurasiantiger 4y agoIt might have been an estimation task, akin to a Fermi problem.
- ianmcgowan 4y agoThat's charitable, but leads to a new "how many manhole" questions - how many programmers in NYC will write fizzbuzz on a whiteboard this week?
- tasuki 4y agoIf fizz buzz took you ten thousand lines, I'd care!
- bheadmaster 4y ago> And of course we have the recent example of a certain chief Twit firing engineers based on LoC. Is there any evidence of this claim that isn't yellow press and random gossip on Twitter?