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by 1812Overture 2981 days ago
I applied for an analytics position that unexpectedly had me take a Python coding test like this (I know a bit of PHP and Java but no Python) and I was able to google everything I needed to pass the test in the time limit. Apparently I got one of the higher scores too. Got the job. It has not required me to write a single line of Python, lol.
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Googling stuff to copy is one of the most important skills for programmers. I was appalled when a middle aged senior programmer at my first internship told me this, thinking he was lazy and unethical... (people are paying you after all!)... how naive I was!