Hire people who give a shit

Re:Hire people who give a shit by kevinventullo on Saturday November 28, 2020 @11:19AM (#25238410)

Yes! I completely agree with the need to hire people who “give a shit”, but to me this means e.g.

  - Dogfooding

  - Fixing a bug even if your manager doesn’t notice

  - Proactively noticing strange system behavior and investigating

  - Actively contributing to strategic discussions; showing genuine interest in the problem space

  - Jumping in to help when the server mysteriously starts crash looping, even if you’re not oncall

All but the last one have nothing to do with working more hours. Even the last one is intended as an exceptional event, not a baseline expectation.

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Re:Hire people who give a shit by 908B64B197 on Saturday November 28, 2020 @01:07PM (#25239215)

You described a senior engineer.

The last one is especially telling, especially if the debugging ends up documented somewhere/explained to the junior on-call.

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Re:Hire people who give a shit by srtjstjsj on Saturday November 28, 2020 @09:33PM (#25242496)

Nothing in that list is absent from a good junior dev who is going to be a great leader in the future.

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Re:Hire people who give a shit by raztogt21 on Saturday November 28, 2020 @01:48PM (#25239544)

This is what I was exactly thinking by reading the first two paragraphs. But then he jumped on "Just must need to work 80 hours per week to do something meaningful" bandwagon.

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