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The most important skill I've learned is how to collect money. Everything falls apart at the end if you can't collect.
Do you mean setting up a payment system for customers? Or getting the adequate funding for a project?
This is insane, what is imp? Giving too much info or not, asking more questions or not?
Oh man, sometimes I hate this process of interviewing.
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Do you mean setting up a payment system for customers? Or getting the adequate funding for a project?
I think wolco is talking about payments that are charged after the service is (at least partially) performed, which is common in the B2B world.
This is a nicely succinct expression of what I intuit to be almost a universal rule of creating/designing/making. It’s related to what I think of as “coherency” and I’m often surprised at how long it can take. The most recent example is that I was writing up some technical feedback for a reviewer of a product I develop. My first draft was several pages worth of dense prose. I realized I needed to simplify, otherwise…
This reminds me of the PHD in the office, who was hired because of some mathematical related skill they specialize in, is never getting their hands dirty. They are off somewhere looking smart and protecting their allure, while us grunts are keeping the lights on. Broad stereotype here, but it is what I have experienced. To be very honest, being on Google searching constantly has been the most important skill. In this…
... do you realise how ridiculous this sounds?
Let me say that I get your point of view: I know of the existence of smart and educated people who are lazy, presumptious, have a superiority complex, talk down on everyone and/or are fakes.
Do you understand my point of view though? Are you aware that people exist who are less educated people and who can't grasp that valuable complex things exist which requiring specialized knowledge, and that those less educated people being unaware of the existence of such things automatically and wrongly assume that their specialists are fakes?
Why the f k do these stupid companies then ask really hard Algorithm puzzles in interviews? This is insane, what is imp? Giving too much info or not, asking more questions or not? Oh man, sometimes I hate this process of interviewing.