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erik_seaberg on Feb 18, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Harder programming questions do a worse job of pre...

Those incentives are misaligned. Not every law school grad can pass the bar.

alboy on Feb 18, 2019 [–]

They may very well be, but is the quality of signal truly worse than that which an interviewer can extract from a few hours of your writing code on the board?

erik_seaberg on Feb 20, 2019 | [–]

There are people with degrees who can't code. I'd prefer we don't hire them, so we ask for coding.

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