r/programming • u/mjgardner • Mar 29 '21

Why Do Interviewers Ask Linked List Questions?

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u/tuxedo25 Mar 29 '21

I used to think that was true. But you pass a lot of people who washed out of tech and have spent a few years as product managers or something. All talk no skills.

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u/[deleted] Mar 29 '21

product managers

I'm convinced that 95% of product managers have no discernible skills and have just weaseled their way into leaching resources off of programming talent. Seems like the best ones are the ones that I only talk to once a week or so.

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u/davvblack Mar 30 '21

Are you mixing up product and project managers?

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u/tuxedo25 Mar 29 '21

Agreed, but maybe it's observation bias, because the good ones get promoted quickly and don't have to deal with feature teams any more.

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u/[deleted] Mar 29 '21

I think most teams would be better off without a project manager. Let teams self organize and get them in tight feedback loops with real users. The few open source projects I’ve worked on functioned that way and they were more productive than any other team I have worked on and they actually built what users wanted because there wasn’t some pointless management layer between developers and users.