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The scary thing is that the candidates are very well qualified and have extensive background in this very field. I think the problem is that all of them have wo
by chime 17y ago
The scary thing is that the candidates are very well qualified and have extensive background in this very field. I think the problem is that all of them have worked in teams where one person does the planning/thinking and the rest just do the grunt-work. I need someone with good problem-solving skills. I don't even care about their past experience, credentials, or accomplishments. I want to know if they can figure stuff out when things go wrong. If they can do that, then they can help take away 40% of my current workload. Otherwise I have 100% of my work + babysit someone else.
- pasbesoin 17y agoYou've gotta be kidding me -- no, I know you aren't. I'm nothing approaching a network admin, and the deductive process and factors you mentioned immediately occurred to me. This reminds me of a (failed) Rational toolset deployment I suffered under some years ago. TPTB decided they were going to support users in India from a U.S. installation. I argued for testing with one or another form of network simulation, but I got nowhere. Sure enough, they deployed, and the thing was unusably slow. The Rational tools involved wanted to touch files and DB (very) repeatedly for each action. Latency killed performance under these circumstances. I guess your story heartens me, a bit. I get to the point of feeling under-experienced particularly as, on paper, I may look under-credentialed. But in practice, as often as not I'm the one posing the difficult and pertinent questions.
- anigbrowl 17y agoToo bad I'm on the opposite coast or I'd drop in :) Good luck finding the right person - this is as good a place to look as any.