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vkou on Nov 3, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Google's infamous internal 2010 “I just want to se...

> Naming isn't very language-specific though [*], and poor naming should be flagged in coding interviews.

I'm not going to turn a candidate away because they use shorthand names when writing code under time pressure on a whiteboard.

Jensson on Nov 3, 2021 [–]

This discussion wasn't about hiring but about code reviews. If you use bad names in your code then the reviewer is correct when they tell you to make better names.

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