When hiring developers, have the candidate read existing code

Re:When hiring developers, have the candidate read existing ... by xarope on Saturday April 16, 2022 @04:39AM (#31050745)

This is definitely a concern. I've previously worked for e.g. eye bee... and despite having written massive amounts of code in c, java etc, I'm probably violating some major NDA if I show any of that code, or discuss details of a first-in-the-world active-active HA cluster solution in the 90s.

By comparison, my github or personal code would be just a bunch of perl, rexx, sh/bash and python scripts written just to automate some work. I doubt anybody would think those should be cleanly written, highly maintainable, modularised, etc...

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Re:When hiring developers, have the candidate read existing ... by hutzlibu on Saturday April 16, 2022 @05:53AM (#31051073)

" just a bunch of perl, rexx, sh/bash and python scripts written just to automate some work. I doubt anybody would think those should be cleanly written"

I do. Even though my quick and dirty scripts are not always clean either, I still profit from the times when I take some more minutes to document what a certain script does and clean out at least the rough edges.

Otherwise it means rewriting the same thing again and again, which costs more time in the end. Or it means executing something you barely understand yourself anymore, which can be dangerous.

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