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Published · transcript-backedDavid Rosenthal: belief
21 Apr 2025 Acquired Epic Systems (MyChart)
“Meanwhile, her son (I think) was in seventh grade or something like that, and was doing these programming competitions around the state.”
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- Speaker
- David Rosenthal
- Attribution
- Verified speaker
- Claim type
- belief
- Recorded
- 21 Apr 2025
- Publisher
- Acquired
- Episode
- Epic Systems (MyChart)
Transcript context
…Yes, please. We mentioned that Judy’s son was a programmer at Microsoft, and that’s how she went to visit him, part of the inspiration for the campus. His involvement in the company actually predates him becoming a programmer at Microsoft or even an adult. In the late 80s, Judy was hiring software developers, and found that interviewing them just wasn’t that predictive of whether they were going to be great software developers or not. Meanwhile, her son (I think) was in seventh grade or something like that, and was doing these programming competitions around the state. She was talking to him. It was like, well you do these programming competitions and there are these tests, and then you’re winning some of them. That’s a pretty good judge of whether you’re a good programmer or not. They’re reasonably predictive.…
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