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| Dec 6, 2024 at 11:37 | comment | added | Lundin | I think many interviewers forget about debugging/problem solving, which is a different skill than designing programs from scratch or coming up with the best algorithm for something. Similarly it isn't common that schools teach debugging at a deeper level. Finding the bug is one of the most difficult programmer tasks of all and you mostly learn this by doing. | |
| Dec 5, 2024 at 12:18 | comment | added | cvegabon | Mmm... I see your point, but you'll always have the "test-period" :D Seriously, I think it has no sense ask a senior developer to do things very close to the University way-of-thinking overall because his/her real problems will be very different. | |
| Dec 5, 2024 at 9:45 | comment | added | Player One | "if it's senior I assume he could" This is a dangerous assumption in my experience, especially smaller organisations (where there are fewer colleagues to take up the slack). | |
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| S Dec 5, 2024 at 8:01 | history | answered | cvegabon | CC BY-SA 4.0 |