Hiring Developers: You're Doing It Wrong
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Hiring Developers: You're Doing It Wrong
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#3It seems fairly obvious that a pure tech interview doesn't screen for cultural fit, and that you need to have some form of behavioral/cultural assessment as part of the interview process.
Depending on how much time you have to interview (and I suggest you take the time if you're going to hire someone!) the "standard" dev interview can do pretty well at weeding out candidates who clearly lack basic skills. Joel Spolsky is a proponent of this and I agree.
I've found that passion is a great indicator of future success, and you can usually get a good quick read on whether they are serious about software development by asking people about their favorite projects, what they spend their time working on, and what interesting things they see happening in the field.
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#4Too bad this site's domain name wasn't issued by the Iceland TLD registry.
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#5Too bad this site's domain name wasn't issued by the Iceland TLD registry.
What's your point? You realize it's an anonymous publishing service that, although being awesome, has nothing to do with the article at hand?
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#6Why not just pair with the interviewee for half a day or a day? You will learn how they think and work and if you like them. It's a riddle to me. I've never heard from anyone actually trying it and not being happy with the insight won.
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#7Speaking from personal experience, a bad job can leave your "passion" somewhat lacking. I think if you asked anyone I work with today, they would definitely describe me as passionate. There are indicators that I am doing well there. I can't agree more with this article. I absolutely hate doing tech interviews. I can not code under pressure. Even in the most high pressure situations with an outage or huge customer issue, I always take a step back, think, and try to see what else might be affected before doing anything.
I hate tech interviews so much, that I never do them. I mostly do unconsciously what this article lays out. I would say personally I've experienced better than average hires if I happen to be positive on the person, doing what this article suggests in an interview. I have missed good people (was overridden) and have failed tons of tech interviews where I thought I would be an excellent fit on the other qualifications.
You'll have to ask my co-workers if I'm good, but they tell me I am.
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#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
What's your point? You realize it's an anonymous publishing service that, although being awesome, has nothing to do with the article at hand?
No humor on HN allowed!
I am getting down votes for this?! WTF? Look at the domain name and understand the original post, before downvoting! Think and then act!
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#10Too bad this site's domain name wasn't issued by the Iceland TLD registry.
Haha, pen.is. Very funny! (so now even the morons get it)