Re:How to Hire a Programmer
by xtracto on Tuesday March 06, 2012 @04:23AM
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>versus intuitively deciding whether someone will fit in the Google clique.
Which I thing is also very important. Imagine making your current colleagues work with someone that just does not fit! everybody might become miserable.
Also, one point I did not see mentioned, and have not seen in any interview I have taken is code reading. If I were looking for a colleague to work in my project, I would give him two or three pages of code from my system which I think are "interesting" and ask him to tell me what it does and some other stuff he observes.
It is most likely that reading the current code is something he/she will be doing at least in the beginning, I would like to make shure she knows how to read code (extra points if it is a language she does not write in, but can grasp the idea of what happens).
Which I thing is also very important. Imagine making your current colleagues work with someone that just does not fit! everybody might become miserable.
Also, one point I did not see mentioned, and have not seen in any interview I have taken is code reading. If I were looking for a colleague to work in my project, I would give him two or three pages of code from my system which I think are "interesting" and ask him to tell me what it does and some other stuff he observes.
It is most likely that reading the current code is something he/she will be doing at least in the beginning, I would like to make shure she knows how to read code (extra points if it is a language she does not write in, but can grasp the idea of what happens).