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And how are these big tech firms spending $billions on recruiting and interview time, as if the education credential is worthless, but still preferring to use it as a first-line filter?
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> It seems take homes are mainly geared towards pre-selecting young single people with a lot of free time to code on the side besides their main job and other responsibilities, or who have no other responsibilities. (snip) I question the future of my career in tech, how will I be able to compete for new jobs later when I won't be, and take homes will be normalized? My counterpoint to this is that takehome tests are g…
How’s your career going? I’m often worried that I’ll look like a dummy when I have to look up basic loop syntax. I’m not dumb, and I’m somewhat experienced… I just write code in Python, Matlab, Fortran, Bash, whatever else. It is shocking that the basic shape of syntax can be so different! And also the degree to which it doesn’t actually matter. It’s just when starting a new file. My brain needs a little bit of synta…
This is, if anything, becoming more true the longer I do this sort of work.