Re:When hiring senior engineers, you’re not buying, you’re s...
by AznHisoka on Sunday January 20, 2019 @08:05PM
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I can’t overemphatize how much persistence really paid off in past jobs I had. Coworkers that had persistence were such a delight to work with because they didnt give up the first time they got stuck. They did the nitty gritty work of tailing/grepping logs, using a debugger, endless Googling, print statements, and anything to find out the root cause of a bug... or even to understand a legacy codebase.
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Re:When hiring senior engineers, you’re not buying, you’re s...
by DoreenMichele on Sunday January 20, 2019 @08:10PM
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It's probably such a delight in part because bright kids are frequently not persistent. They are used to things coming easily. If it doesn't come easily, many are quick to throw in the towel.
Someone who is both bright and persistent can move mountains. But it often has a big social downside. People don't like change. Being bright, persistent and also socially savvy enough to sidestep drama is practically a unicorn.
Re:When hiring senior engineers, you’re not buying, you’re s...
by jcadam on Monday January 21, 2019 @06:34AM
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I've done that sort of work. Eventually you realize that nobody notices the guy who tracked down and killed that vexatious heisenbug in the legacy code base. You need to be working on the new, shiny, high-visibility projects or your career is going to stagnate.
Re:When hiring senior engineers, you’re not buying, you’re s...
by nailer on Monday January 21, 2019 @07:03AM
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Or change the culture.
Friday demo day (to sales and cust success and everyone else): "hey everyone, know that thing customer X keep complaining about that we've never been able to solve? It's been super tricky. Just wanted to announce that James here figured it out and it's fixed forever. James you're a hero."