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tsotha
on Sept 22, 2013
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The Ph.D.-Industry Gap
So you spend the interview trying to confuse them with meaningless jargon which you're using to describe a task programmers do every day? Really?
Let me guess... you don't have a high rate of acceptance when you extend offers.
selimthegrim
on Sept 22, 2013
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I didn't explicitly say anonymous inner class to them. In fact, I didn't use the words at all. I simply gently pointed out the line of code in the code sample already and asked how it might be better leveraged.
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Let me guess... you don't have a high rate of acceptance when you extend offers.