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technical interviews are asinine.

they make ya feel pretty good but cmon anyone with half a brain knows it's all bullshit. Like seriously this is the best idea we have as software engineers? tell me the big o of an algorithm that can reverse a string? a lil quiz

Dustin muskovitz helped build FB he learned php from a perl for dummies book in one weekend. there's 1000's of these stories all over the world but just replace billions with thousands and millions of dollars but u get it

referrals are preferential because we don't wanna hire someone we can't immediately fire if they suck.

how about how badly do you want this job or how eager are you to learn



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