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[โ€“] [email protected] 24 points 4 months ago (8 children)

I asked candidates to bring me some code they were proud of and teach me how it worked. Weeded out people really quickly and brought quality candidates to the top. On two separate occasions we hired devs with zero experience in the language or framework and they rocked it. Trythat with your coding interview, eh? ๐Ÿ™‚

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Do tools written in shell count?

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

One of my classmates years ago loved bash. They wrote a filesystem for their OS class in Bash. It was a really, really impressive and bad idea.

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