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Joel on Software - The Guerrilla Guide to Interviewing
by cyantist at 2:24 pm EST, Feb 21, 2005 |
] Hiring the right people is extremely crucial to Fog Creek
] Software. In our field, there are three types of people.
] At one end of the scale, there are the unwashed masses,
] lacking even the most basic skills for this job. They are
] easy to ferret out and eliminate, often just by reviewing
] a resume and asking two or three quick questions. At the
] other extreme, are the brilliant superstars who write
] lisp compilers for fun, in a weekend, in Assembler for
] the Palm Pilot. And in the middle, you have a large
] number of "maybes" who seem like they might just be able
] to contribute something. The trick is telling the
] difference between the superstars and the maybes, because
] at Fog Creek Software we only hire the superstars. This is great and is exactly what I look for when hiring candidates! |
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RE: Joel on Software - The Guerrilla Guide to Interviewing
by Decius at 2:11 am EST, Feb 22, 2005 |
cyantist wrote:
] This is great and is exactly what I look for when hiring
] candidates! This was pretty good. The only thing that erked me is when he started getting real specific, like "good programmers make little drawings." I've written that link list function more times then I care to admit and I've never, ever had to draw it. Good programmers plan, but they don't always think the way you do. Don't expect them to plan the way you do. |
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Joel on Software - The Guerrilla Guide to Interviewing
by Lost at 11:57 am EDT, Aug 24, 2005 |
That's it. That's all we're looking for. Memorize that. Recite it to yourself before you go to bed every night. Our goal is to hire people with aptitude, not a particular skill set. Any skill set that people can bring to the job will be technologically obsolete in a couple of years, anyway, so it's better to hire people that are going to be able to learn any new technology rather than people who happen to know SQL programming right this minute.
Joel. |
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