Re:8 Hard truths I learned when I got laid off from my SWE job
by scatters on Thursday December 29, 2022 @11:40AM
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Expecting people to have personal projects outside work is very much selecting for a certain type of person. You're ruling out people who devote their time outside work to their families, or sport, or hobbies that don't involve programming.
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Re:8 Hard truths I learned when I got laid off from my SWE job
by criddell on Thursday December 29, 2022 @03:51PM
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I’m not ruling out anything. So far I have yet to find somebody who can’t come up with a code sample to bring to the interview. When that happens, I would probably give them a (paid) assignment. Maybe something like “fix issue #12345 on open source project X”. I’d have to think about it a little and discuss it with the candidate.