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		tomjen3 on March 5, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why Software Maker Fog Creek Is Helping Its Compet... Worse: they demand that you can code, and don't consider it their problem to teach you how to do that. Anyway I thought it was well established that years of experience is a bullshit measurement anyway and you should just apply no matter what - worst thing happens, you end up getting hired.

Retra on March 5, 2015 [–]

The worst that happens is that you have a bunch of go-nowhere time-wasting interviews with people who can't properly evaluate you anyway.

That time is certainly valuable to me.

tomjen3 on March 5, 2015 | [–]

That would be bad, but consider the time wasted if you ended up being hired by them.

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