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Unfair advantage means: 1. Interview questions for fresh grads are very CS oriented. For example, I have seen candidates immediately dismissed for not being able to estimate algori…

I am just telling you the truth. IT industry != Software Engineering industry. Event IT will favor Business, InfoSys, Accounting grads way above any other science disciplines. In S…

Change majors, do a second major, etc. "Assuming I know the relevant programming languages and have some experience" is a big assumption. Computer Science (or any science major) is…

Comes with the territory. Ask yourself if you trust your partners. If you trust them, then don't even worry about head-hunters and recruiters. If you do not, then you should not be…

Go 64-bit! A medium instance is actually a very nice option for small deployments. Micro instances are throttled - http://gregsramblings.com/2011/02/07/amazon-ec2-micro-instan... .…

There are so a lot more patterns of high availability architectures other than load balancing. Distributed Queues, Pub/Sub, Gossip just a few that come to mind. In your example, yo…

But how an audition will improve anything? The marginal improvement in the new hire quality that you get from doing an audition is not worth the time and money spent on auditions p…

I absolutely agree, the trial period should be discussed up front. Full disclosure. There will always be special cases.

This is often times the case. However, you loose several weeks doing the audition and you loose a few good candidates who took the offers that did not require the audition.

Well, if you end up firing a lot of people, give recruiting to someone who's a better judge of character. Firing when things do not work out is an honest act. What does it have to …

General Counsel gets a fat paycheck to take care of that. Avoiding litigations is simple too - do not hire dicks; ever. If you hired a decent person in the first place, and after t…

Why do an audition project when you can fire candidates who do not work out within the first three months? My advice is to trust yourself and hire people you like. Take a leap of f…

Again, you say that you want to weed out prima donnas. Yet, you act like a prima donna yourself with "we're not equal". Do everyone a favor - don't even invite people to the interv…

This question says a lot about the interviewer too. To me, the interviewer who asks the biggest weakness question is either clueless or a dick. Nice HR ladies who have this questio…