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Please stop the coding challenges

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261 points CrazyEmi | 5 comments | 15 Nov 24 15:32 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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simonw ◴[15 Nov 24 16:00 UTC] No.42148072[source]▶
> This is like asking a Ruby developer to debug PHP as a test of flexibility.

Sounds like an OK test to me. Great (senior) developers should be able to do that kind of thing. Categorizing yourself exclusively as "a Ruby developer" is a career trap.

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makk ◴[15 Nov 24 16:07 UTC] No.42148141[source]▶
> Categorizing yourself exclusively as "a Ruby developer" is a career trap.

And a lucrative one at that.

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bluedevilzn ◴[15 Nov 24 16:12 UTC] No.42148201[source]▶
It’s lucrative if your bar is 6 figures.

No engineer that makes 7 figures calls themselves a ruby developer with the exception of DHH.

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1. marcellus23 ◴[15 Nov 24 16:17 UTC] No.42148272[source]▶
Nominated for most HN comment of the week.
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2. ryandrake ◴[15 Nov 24 16:42 UTC] No.42148510[source]▶
Come on! Everyone posting on HN makes $500K a year, has a vacation home in Tahoe and drives a brand new Ferrari. They think "L6 at Google in the Bay Area" is the median job level for the entire software industry.
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3. dmvdoug ◴[15 Nov 24 16:42 UTC] No.42148513[source]▶
Where’s n-gate.com when you need them, eh? :)
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4. ForHackernews ◴[15 Nov 24 16:53 UTC] No.42148604[source]▶
If this article and the comments here are to be believed, all you need to do to make L6 is grind on leetcode.

Sounds like a good deal to me.

5. marcellus23 ◴[15 Nov 24 17:03 UTC] No.42148695[source]▶
Man I miss n-gate. Sometimes I go back and read the archives just for fun.