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vips7L on April 10, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: The software industry's greatest sin: hiring

I don't think every system needs to be large or distributed. 90% of engineers aren't going to need to go beyond the basics of load balancing.

nine_k on April 10, 2020 [–]

What we do is just that, so we're trying to see if a potential hire will be able to work with what we have.

Non-senior SE candidates don't have to do this exercise.

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