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by JCDenton2052 1967 days ago
Questions about tests. I have found consistently that when an interviewer does not know what the test coverage of their codebase is, more likely than not they don't care about such trivialities.

No matter how respectable the company might look on the outside, the codebase is an incorrigible mess built by cowboys and they will expect you to maintain it.

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I'm going to just say that making a codebase testable increases the complexity by a couple of orders of magnitude. Certainly it's great for some things. For other things it's a net negative.
Test is a small part of the whole picture. They might have lots of test but the system might still suck.