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Technical interview methods pale in comparison to playing Factorio with someone
There’s been a lot of hand-wringing over The Technical Interview lately. Many people realize that inverting a binary tree on a whiteboard has basically zero correlation to whether or not someone is actually a good software developer. The most effective programming test anyone’s come up with is still Fizzbuzz. One…
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Career & ManagementGames & Graphics2021
On Hacker News
| Submitted | Title on HN | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 26, 2021 | Technical interview methods pale in comparison to playing Factorio with someone by blackhole | 412 | 344 |
| Sep 23, 2022 | Factorio Is the Best Technical Interview We Have (2021) by freediver | 70 | 44 |
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Linked from 3 Hacker News comments by 3 different people, from Apr 2021 to Apr 2021.
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- iancmceachern · Apr 20, 2021
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