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For your type of industry or company perhaps. Not all jobs or companies are the same, and different styles of questions will be more useful depending on those.
by illumen 12y ago
For your type of industry or company perhaps. Not all jobs or companies are the same, and different styles of questions will be more useful depending on those.
A lot of development shops work by picking the best technology for the job. They choose the best plugin, or the best language, or the best component. In those types of shops, this question is exactly as you say - a task they will have to do routinely in the job.
- tptacek 12y agoMy type of industry is "consulting software development in every mainstream programming language and on every stack". We could have a very long thread arguing the point, but I'm going to go out on a limb and say that I hire for an unusually representative segment of the software development industry.