Re:To apply, solve the following... are you kidding?
by epicureanideal on Friday September 30, 2011 @07:06AM
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That's exactly how I was looking at it.
Re:To apply, solve the following... are you kidding?
by bmelton on Friday September 30, 2011 @07:27AM
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Fair and appropriate. I'm clearly not Google, but I am looking to hire people who value my company the way you seem to value Google. If that isn't you, I think we'll both agree that it's best that you don't complete the code eval.
You might be the best programmer in the world, but I'd rather hire a 'really good' programmer that gives a damn about what we do than a 'super awesome amazing rockstar' programmer that doesn't.
That said, since somebody called and asked... No, I am not hiring.
If you're not Google, I don't have much time for you until you clearly signal to me that there is actually a real job opening, with funding, which you intend to hire someone for in the immediate future, which you have determined that I might be a fit for based on the information I sent you. I don't mind jumping through a few reasonable hoops after I know it's not a waste of my time. If you don't value my time enough to spend a few seconds skimming my letter of interest and affirming to me that you have a real position open, there are plenty of other openings for developers.