Hire characters, not skill sets. My most important questions in interviews

Re:Hire characters, not skill sets. My most important questi... by spenuke on Thursday April 28, 2016 @08:35AM (#11588311)

This is my experience. It's a codependent relationship between management who is unable to determine the feasibility of what it's asking for (or, just as often, what it is asking for) on the one hand, and an eager-to-please yes-man of an engineer on the other.

Management loves how fast things are delivered, and boyscout loves the pats on the head. The rest of us hate the countdown until the house of cards comes tumbling down.

I saw a great tweet some time ago that defined a 10xer as an engineer who accumulates technical debt so fast, it takes 10 engineers to fix their mess. That about sums it up, doesn't it?

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Re:Hire characters, not skill sets. My most important questi... by sharemywin on Thursday April 28, 2016 @09:15AM (#11588533)

I love that tweet. Although it happens on the management side too. Manager comes in runs a team into ground(that the previous manager spent years building), pushes all kinds of work on other teams as well, takes credit for all of it and keeps getting promoted.

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