Re:To find great remote employees, prioritize candidates wit...
by maerF0x0 on Monday November 23, 2020 @10:01PM
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>This means no 5000 esseys.
I generally tell people looking for my advice, engineering is a reading job. Until humanity figures out how to transfer ideas with something other than characters, you're going to have to read. A lot.
For example, one quick tip I give is just read the entirety of anything you encounter. The whole error message + stack trace. The whole document (page) about the package that contains the function you're after... the whole type and its functions.
It's also how I often mark people a "No" for interview -- when they obviously are not reading the error (with line number!) of their non-compiling code...
I generally tell people looking for my advice, engineering is a reading job. Until humanity figures out how to transfer ideas with something other than characters, you're going to have to read. A lot.
For example, one quick tip I give is just read the entirety of anything you encounter. The whole error message + stack trace. The whole document (page) about the package that contains the function you're after... the whole type and its functions.
It's also how I often mark people a "No" for interview -- when they obviously are not reading the error (with line number!) of their non-compiling code...