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But you'll not be able to answer the harder whiteboard questions. And only those get you hired..



Hey you got downvoted, but as someone with 15 years experience, I am definitely worse at whiteboard stuff than when i was straight out of Uni. I do write far better software these days though and can usually design things in a way that avoid the need for too much "clever" code.


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