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> similarly brilliant developers at all age levels.

Being a brilliant developer has absolutely nothing to do with being a brilliant or even effective interviewer.



Not true in my experience, if you're a poor communicator you cannot be a good developer in a team environment.

Developers are not the sum of their raw coding ability. If you are a savant genius at coding but a poor communicator, you will be a terrible addition to any large organization.

Such mavericks might be effective in startup environments, but try joining a large org and start tearing up code without communicating effectively, you will be out within a month.

I'd even go as far as to say raw coding ability isn't even a developer's most important skill.

I'm a full-time developer and coding isn't even 50% of my job.


I didn't say anything about "raw coding ability". Being a good developer has nothing to do with being a good interviewer.


Disagree. Interviewing is about communication. All good developers communicate effectively. If you can't communicate, you're useless to a large organisation.




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