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		StandardFuture on April 10, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The software industry's greatest sin: hiring It is only a false equivalence in that programming literally != sculpting. It is a relevant analogy, however.

stevenwoo on April 10, 2020 [–]

It's still not - we would not ask someone to make a painting or drawing or animation or maquette or 3d model on the spot during an on site/video interview ( maybe you might personally but that generally not practiced) - that is directly analogous.

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