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0 pointsBakary9y ago0 comments

At the risk of sounding foolish, but isn't it easy for a company to filter out applicants in technical fields, simply by asking technical questions?

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But that takes the engineers you already have and puts them in interviews instead of engineering.

Yes, and that's what they've done at every programming job I've ever had.

Now there is a mini industry around getting people over that very low bar. FizzBuzz was a temporary patch, now we need a real fix.

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