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		_halgari on July 8, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Amazon software engineer interview I tend to agree. In my opinion, if a job interview required me to brush up that much on a topic it either means: a) the company is putting to much emphasis on "non-google" programming, which doesn't match reality (real software engineering isn't a closed book test). b) I don't know the subject matter well enough and it would be a bad fit anyways.

dgemm on July 9, 2016 [–]

> the company is putting to much emphasis on "non-google" programming, which doesn't match reality (real software engineering isn't a closed book test)

Maybe if you work on gluing together APIs then the googling aspect is more important...? In this case I find the term "software engineering" to be a stretch...

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