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Stopped judging candidates on "style" due to stuff like this. I only comment if the code doesn't work, if it works i don't really bother to correct code style or provide feedback on it.

45 minutes interviews aren't really the place to evaluate this.



It sounds like the author wasn't nitpicking style - they thought the code literally wouldn't work.

(But, the intent on the interviewee's part was definitely clear - I'd definitely let this pass.)


The blog itself isn't clear, and I think that's confusing some of the people here:

> The candidate this time was programming in python

But the code blocks aren't in python. But in the paragraph afterwards they capitalize "True" which is a python thing. Then afterwards mention they're using javascript as their reference, which uses "true" instead and the code blocks could be javascript.

It feels like the author has more language confusion going on than just this one feature of python.


That's why i put "style" in quotes, the interviewer didn't know about the feature but still decided it was "wrong" or "ugly" even though the code works.


Linters are for this.

You need to detect if someone is humble and smart enough to fit in to how you do things as a team, whatever that is.

Not reject someone for not hitting a style guide on a piece of paper tucked behind a hidden secret door. (As I was once!)




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