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Coupled with the preconceived notions of the interviewer, even the most skilled individual can be disqualified with ease.

In which case, tcc, pcc and ACK would also be disqualified as C compilers under your definition.

It's not really cleverness if you break the rules so obviously that you get caught and disqualified.

In other words, optimizing for not being disqualified is not the same for optimizing for first choice for a position.

The disqualified program doesn't really calculate the 10 most common words– it simply outputs the answer.

Thus, one could race brilliantly for most of the day and fall in the end of the second run and become disqualified.

I said I wouldn't write it in Go because it is already disqualified due to the complexity issues.

Odds are you'd be disqualified but it might be a fun feasibility study.

Any errors resulting in foreign key mismatches disqualified the client app for release.

Some brilliant people have none - they prefer to get paid for their work & not disseminate it openly for free - that does not mean they should be disqualified --b.

If there were a contest out of this, it could be disqualified: i.e.

Anyone in a type of business where there are free competitors is disqualified?

And who cares if you think my argument should automatically be "disqualified" because it doesn't match your politics.

Is everyone afraid to be labelled "socialist" and thereby disqualified if suggesting something worker-friendly?

They shut down, disqualified you virtually immediately based solely on "lack of cultural fit", went through the motions, and then fed you a generic line.

> And who cares if you think my argument should automatically be "disqualified" because it doesn't match your politics.