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chii on Aug 21, 2024 | parent | context | favorite | on: Bug squash: An underrated interview question

The reason someone is unemployed or is desperate might correlate (inversely) with their ability to produce high workload.

dmoy on Aug 21, 2024 | [–]

Or it might just be a totally unrelated layoff that axed a whole team / org / whatever.

Piskvorrr on Aug 22, 2024 | [–]

Might correlate with ability. Which - let's be honest - gets rounded down to "is caused by inability", just in the next step, in the name of Efficient Hiring Process.

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