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by drugme 2638 days ago
Another fun aspect is that, surprisingly often, these "tests" are poorly (and in some cases, plainly wrongly) articulated and/or simply not do-able as articulated.

Or do-able, but they end up requiring 2-4x the "just a couple of hours" they asked for to be done reasonably well.

After which at some point one starts asking one's self: "Do I need this industry actually?"