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Great questions and answers. Admittedly, I can’t help but feel there aren’t very many pain points mentioned, which makes me ask what’s being left out.

Additionally, how often was coding actually involved in this role? I hear this claim often but in my experience it’s rare. One-line fixes don’t count. Specifically, what projects were you a code contributor to?

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I'm going to guess quite infrequently based on this first sentence of how she spends her time.

> While I do write code from time-to-time, it’s only after I’ve delivered on my obligations on these four functions.

For me, it's either the core or foundational part of the most important projects to the company, or, one liners followed by a paragraph of comments in some tricky/obscure part of a codebase no one has looked at in a while.

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