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Carving clean lines of code. Riding down a narrow path in the tech industry—or am I climbing?

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The one question that made me turn down a job offer

Last month, I went through a full interview process for a tech lead role. It went well — I liked the team and product, and they seemed to like me — until the very last minute in the CTO interview. One question completely threw me off balance: I was so unsettled that the rest of the interview was an absolute mess. I more or less dodged questions. Something in me just didn’t want to answer that question. It felt wrong. The whole process was most likely screwed at that point anyway, but that interv...

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