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andyjohnson0today at 8:12 PM1 replyview on HN

You still had to do a coding test -- but it was pointing to the bug in the C++ linked-list implementation on a single sheet of line printer paper.

Because nobody was going to carry a Sun workstation down to the meeting room just for your interview.


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freedombentoday at 8:57 PM

I remember a Java job interview like that. "Tell us what you would do to improve this code" with a couple pages of code printed out :-D

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