> Is that why most prestigious jobs grilled you like a devil on algos/system design?
No. That’s because interviews have always sucked, and have always been terrible predictors of how you do on the job. We just never had a better way of deciding except paying for a project.
> That’s just nonsense. It’s like saying “delivering product was always the most important thing, not drinking water”.
That’s… not an argument? It’s not even a strawman, it’s just unrelated.
The thing a customer has always paid for was the end product. Not the code. This is absolutely trivial to see, since a customer has never asked to read the code.
> No. That’s because interviews have always sucked, and have always been terrible predictors of how you do on the job. We just never had a better way of deciding except paying for a project.
Who cares? They’re here, and they will stay here for foreseeable future.
> That’s… not an argument? It’s not even a strawman, it’s just unrelated. The thing a customer has always paid for was the end product. Not the code. This is absolutely trivial to see, since a customer has never asked to read the code.
Yeah, and they didn’t pay for the water that you drank. Without which, you know, you’ll fucking die. Code is part of the package, just like you eating and shitting in the process.