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reason enough to fail the interview (thelemmy.club)
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A picture of Edsger Dijkstra with a concerned face and the following text on top: How software engineers look at your code when you solve the problem using two tables — instead of using the Maxwell-Ross-Karmakar algorithm, which is marginally optimal in ordered sets bijectable to the exponential curve
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[–] 9 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

Sounds like you need to fire the person handing out vague and undefined tasks to everyone 😂

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  • [–] 4 points 4 weeks ago

    Every task starts out as a vague idea that, at some point, needs to be narrowed down to something specific and actionable.

    If you’re at a sufficiently large organization and you get lucky, that happens before it makes it to a developer. For the rest of us, it’s an important skill to be able to take a task, ask clarifying questions, and narrow it down to something actionable.

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