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"but the written interview part (the part people seem to protest the most) I actually find quite useful."

Yeah, not taking advice from this fellow. Good writing doesn't necessarily make you a good software engineer (and vice versa). Save this garbage for college applications.

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It doesn’t necessarily make you one, but it’s a darn good indicator.

How so? If it was, most novelist should be great software engineers. They are not.

This line of conversation has now become so nonsensical that I can only conclude you are arguing in bad faith.

The act of writing fictitious narrative prose is obviously quite far removed from communicating technical ideas clearly and concisely. I think you know that.

Communication important

I mean, it's Canonical - they famously weigh high-school experience very heavily, so I guess them behaving like colleges is consistent (if slightly insane).

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