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Agreed. Honestly I think the hardest part here is programmer mindset - when you suggest that identity is fluid and records don’t have to correspond to a class hierarchy some folks get a panicked look going on, like you just claimed to eat their pets



Yep. Funny story, this was actually a coding interview homework for a question with order of millions of data rows from a file. The exercise required 10s timing requirement, so I decided to do it data centric from start. Interviewers found my style ‚non idiomatic‘, but probably never thought about why my version was done in fractions of a second.


Did you pass the interview?


I did and got the offer. In the end it didn't work out however (better offer elsewhere).




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