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by subradios 1268 days ago
I think comparing the trades to the hottest intellectual profession on the planet with extremely heavy competition is extremely misguided.

The whiteboard torture test exists because there are tens of thousands of candidates and only hundreds of those actually have a pulse when it comes to developing software.

I'm not talking about implementing Kadane's or Dijkstra's, I'm talking about fizzbuzz, basic control structures, etc.