Re:Questions to ask at the end of a technical interview
by ryandrake on Tuesday April 04, 2017 @08:22PM
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Why does "passion" always come up as a requirement? Isn't enough that the candidate is smart, competent, professional, and motivated? Do they really have to pretend that they have a deep and burning passion for CRUD apps and SQLite? Do they need to profess their love for the accounting web portal they're going to be tasked with maintaining? You're not looking for a spouse, you're looking for an employee.
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Re:Questions to ask at the end of a technical interview
by skray on Tuesday April 04, 2017 @10:04PM
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This, 100%. My company is jumping on the 'engaged employee' bandwagon, and it's frankly pretty patronizing. No, I do not give a shit about your marketing app. However, I enjoy my coworkers and the interesting technical problems we're tasked with solving. Just embrace the fact that you're not Google and you can still hire good people.
Re:Questions to ask at the end of a technical interview
by wheresvic1 on Wednesday April 05, 2017 @01:58AM
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100% agree. In any case, at least as far as my experience has been, the technical interview is usually one of the first steps and more often than not, I really don't have much of a clear idea about the product and the work itself.
The best way to make do in this case is to ask questions that will help me gauge if I would be happy here even if I'm working on a CRUD app.
It's the people that make it worthwhile after all :)