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What would a recession mean for developers?

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Re: What would a recession mean for developers?

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> My warm-up questions are usually something like "reverse a singly-linked-list" or "check if a string is a palindrome" I've written sites, apps, ORMs, enterprise tools, code generators, FAAS platforms from scratch, exporters for DOCX and EPUB, etc etc for decades. I've been junior, mid, senior, lead of two teams. I've transitioned companies to cloud, created data warehouses, built BI universes. All sorts of stuff ov…

> those whiteboard exercises would have me saying no thanks and ending the interview Then I saved 45 minutes of my life, great. The point is, if you want to join the company I work for (and many people want to), you have to jump through the hoops of this company. You should re-read the start of my comment, because I don't think those whiteboard questions are a great way to hire people. I just don't think there's a wa…

Totally get that you can't just believe the claims. I just disagree that whiteboards are in any way a good solution.

But fair enough, if it works for you it works for you.

Re: What would a recession mean for developers?

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Re: What would a recession mean for developers?

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I don’t know what you graduated in. But I was given a chance at my first good company because I followed a pretty elitist (natural sciences I must add) curriculum. But in the meantime, I had found consulting jobs pretty easily. And even if they’re crap it launches you in the career.

> I don't know what you graduated in. You don't know I graduated at all. I'm not saying either way, but if I did, it had zero utility in my software career. Credentialism on degree subject matter for people making mid-career moves is misguided at best.

You were talking about a junior position in your post, not mid-career move.
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