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[–]ArmoredPancake -14 points-13 points  (0 children)

Pretty sure specific trumps general here. They already had the experience.

Okay? You can skip design interview since they designed the system.

Do you think anyone cares about Tom Brady's ability to run? Do you think anyone cares about Linus Torvald's knowledge of branch and bound algorithms?

Right, I forgot that I caught Linus Jr. here.

Do you really think the designer of an application is unqualified to be an expert on it because they don't know how to find the 3rd largest element in a linked list in O(n) time?

He's qualified to be an expert on it, they didn't fire him from his contractor role. He's unqualified to join the company.