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by kmbriedis 3122 days ago
Agree except for the 'This post, indirectly leads to stupid requirements at interviews' part. She did not decribe anything a decent developer should not know
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She is advocating spending an unreasonable amount of personal time learning and working on personal projects. There is a perverse focus on that part at some interviews, and it's wrong on so many levels unless you do not want any personal time.
Doing online quizzes to improve your "syntax" is definitely in the realms of interview stupidity