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Re:Interview Programming Problems Done Right by orangecat on Friday January 06, 2012 @02:22AM (#3432397)
You're selecting for extroverts at the expense of introverts. Which may be desirable for your company, but I would (somewhat selfishly) not want that to be the common case.

we'll take the mediocre guy and just train him up into being a brilliant programmer

If you actually have a successful process for doing that, you could be owning many islands.

Re:Interview Programming Problems Done Right by sontek on Friday January 06, 2012 @04:21AM (#3432643)
Its not about introvert vs extrovert, its about passion. I don't think any of the people on my team would do well socially at a bar but you ask us something about Linux, Python, etc and we could talk for hours.

"If you actually have a successful process for doing that, you could be owning many islands."

Don't pull a fox news on me, you can't rip out the most important part of that sentence ;)

Someone _who has a lot of passion_