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Of course it is, it's a way to gauge whether "someone is dedicated to the job by cramming the algorithms section they haven't touched in years"

I've done dozens of interviews and after all of it, I realized there are only four qualities we quantify as useful: caring, ability to listen, ability to learn.




Fourth quality: ability to count


there are four kinds of people: people who can count, people who can't, and pedants


I think "caring" is probably the only one that separates the best from the rest. Reminds me of this: https://youtu.be/7EmboKQH8lM?t=2165

If we care as a developer, we write better code, learn things and listen to our team, customers.


Also the ability to identify off-by-one errors


I love this comment, not least because the enumeration leaves one to imagine what level of multi-dimensional punning and irony are being invoked.


To be completely honest, it was a mistake... I forgot to add 'curiosity' after 'caring' but... I will now use this to figure out who is curious about the fourth one :D


And debugging off-by-one errors.


That's only 3


There are only two types of people: those who can derive a set from missing data.




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