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We start things off with two comments about terrible interview questions. The first is specific to a particular question discussed in this post: Terrible interview question: Swap variables without a temporary. @alexkindle offers on upside from getting this question:
I love getting interview questions like swap without a temporary variable, because it is an extremely strong signal (as an interviewee) that you should absolutely not work at this company.
In a more general, and thoroughly entertaining, Terrible Interview Questions discussion thread, @sanidz shared this classic exchange:
Interviewer: "Did you heard about this facebook thing?"
Me: "Sure"
Interviewer: "Can you than develop something like that?"
Me: "What?"
Interviewer: "What?"
Replying to Are we pretentious and arrogant?, @nprimak describes their strategy for staying out of an oftentimes-toxic environment:
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Sharing a particularly awesome accomplishment in What was your win this week?, @amejiarosario received plenty of love in response to this announcement:
This week, I published my new book about Algorithms in JavaScript!
Finally, answering What should I know to be a software architect?, @jorgecc offers a thorough run-down on the term of "software architect" and shares some insights about what one might want to know if they're moving into that role:
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See you next week for more great comments ✌
Top comments (3)
Congrats to @alexkindle , @sanidz , @nprimak , @amejiarosario , and @jorgecc for making the list this week!
Oh great. This gave me my first badge!!
I laughed so hard when I read the 2nd comment from @sanidz lol. Saw it day or two ago.