Hiring Is Broken – My interview experience in the tech industry

Re:Hiring Is Broken – My interview experience in the tech in... by YeGoblynQueenne on Wednesday April 27, 2016 @10:04AM (#11580508)

I guess the take-home lesson here is that programmers have no idea what makes a good programmer and how to screen for one. So they fall back to the basics, CS 101.

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Re:Hiring Is Broken – My interview experience in the tech in... by ionforce on Wednesday April 27, 2016 @01:22PM (#11582452)

> programmers have no idea what makes a good programmer

I disagree. I think we do know what we want, but there is no cheap/easy litmus test for this. If time, money, and opportunity were free, the way to find out if someone is a good programmer is to work with them for a long time.

Okay, now find a cheap way to do that while both sides of the interview have to juggle full time jobs and other interviews.

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Re:Hiring Is Broken – My interview experience in the tech in... by adam_mckenna on Wednesday April 27, 2016 @07:25PM (#11585445)

Programmers in general? Probably do. The programmer who has free time to do phone screens? Less likely.

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