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by renecito 356 days ago
too late, all the slackers got promoted and now are demanding to keep pushing features no one is asking about.
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Same is true for lots of things. Classic example is we are so leetcode obsessed because all the people that were leetcode obsessed got hired and promoted. We've embraced p-hacking, forgetting Goodhart's Law (and the original intention of leetcode style interviewing. It's just the traditional engineering interview, where you get to see how the interviewee problem solves. It is less about the answer and more about the thought process. It's easy to educate people on answers, but it is hard to teach someone how to think in a different framework... (how much money do we waste through this and by doing so many rounds of interviewing?))