Re:Hiring Developers: You're Doing It Wrong
by grammaton on Wednesday March 30, 2011 @10:21AM
(#2387303)
> 1.upto 10 do |i| { print i }
My answer would be "bombs with syntax error," assuming this isn't something that just looks like Ruby.
Re:Hiring Developers: You're Doing It Wrong
by jacques_chester on Wednesday March 30, 2011 @05:51PM
(#2389391)
Well now we know why I was sacked!
Erm... why did they fire you?
Re:Hiring Developers: You're Doing It Wrong
by jacques_chester on Wednesday March 30, 2011 @06:51AM
(#2386609)
I've wondered about that myself. I wanted to stay, I liked it there. But it's like many relationships in life, if both parties don't want it, it won't pan out.
Edit: I also had to take time off for studies and I suspect they really wanted all-hands-on-deck.
Re:Hiring Developers: You're Doing It Wrong
by rfrey on Wednesday March 30, 2011 @11:33AM
(#2387695)
If a person is fired from a company, and that person doesn't really know why, it is not a plaudit for that company or the managers involved.
Re:Hiring Developers: You're Doing It Wrong
by jacques_chester on Wednesday March 30, 2011 @05:54PM
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In their defence, they were new to having to manage people they didn't already know -- which is probably why they went back to hiring people they already knew.
A tribunal would find out soon enough. Ker-ching!
Darcy also goes to school although: "By day I attend the University of Western Australia"
Re:Hiring Developers: You're Doing It Wrong
by jacques_chester on Thursday March 31, 2011 @12:22AM
(#2390410)
They had about half as many people when I worked there and it was fairly full-on.
The process was to work together with a senior coder on problems of escalating difficulty. Starting with
"What does this do?"And ending with "Here's a legacy application we maintain. Add a new widget to the dashboard. Think aloud."
During the day you had lunch with the team.
Even so, that process didn't work perfectly for them. They hired me and about 6 months later they decided to fire me.
Subsequently they've focused on hiring people they already knew. For example, they've hired Darcy Laycock (http://sutto.net/), who they've known through the Rails community for years.
... and in all fairness I'd sack about 5 of me to get a Darcy on board.