The One Question to Ask Developers Before You Make a Hire Decision

Re:The One Question to Ask Developers Before You Make a Hire... by VikingCoder on Friday July 17, 2015 @10:16AM (#9902802)

I've been a paid, professional software developer since 1995. In all of that time, I've been between jobs for a total of 4 weeks. And during all of that time, I've had employment contracts that said my work was for-hire, and the company owned all of the software that I wrote, even on my own computer on my own time.

So, the answer to your question is, I haven't written anything I can legally describe to you without permission, since 1995.

Is that seriously the ONLY question you want to ask me?

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Re:The One Question to Ask Developers Before You Make a Hire... by DustinOfDenver on Friday July 17, 2015 @12:32PM (#9903528)

Your description of the companies you worked for - tell me a lot. Not that you are not a great developer, but the types of employers you like and filter you use to select your next job - that too is important.

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Re:The One Question to Ask Developers Before You Make a Hire... by VikingCoder on Friday July 17, 2015 @01:22PM (#9903809)

So then the title should be "One of the Questions..."

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