Re:Why WhatsApp Only Needs 50 Engineers for Its 900M Users
by segmondy on Wednesday September 16, 2015 @01:50PM
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Interviews!
Re:Why WhatsApp Only Needs 50 Engineers for Its 900M Users
by rifung on Wednesday September 16, 2015 @05:29PM
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I haven't heard of a single company that has nailed down interviews. I was going to mention interviews but figured that if you couldn't measure how much an employee contributes, you'd have a much harder time measuring how much a prospective employee could contribute given a much shorter time to test them.
I haven't heard of anyone who has figured out how to measure an engineer's abilities.
Some people test algorithms. Others test how often they've shipped things. Most just look for years of experience. A few even test whether you know certain facts.