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We interview people based on their passion for the craft and never use code tests or whiteboard tests. If they have a GitHub account, great, we'll look at what
by bovermyer 10y ago
We interview people based on their passion for the craft and never use code tests or whiteboard tests. If they have a GitHub account, great, we'll look at what they have available. It's not required.
Our team is bright, engaged, and productive. This system seems to work pretty well for us. And yes, we have a pretty diverse group of engineers.
- mikulas_florek 10y ago> We interview people based on their passion for the craft What does that mean? > never use code tests or whiteboard tests > If they have a GitHub account So if they have no open source project, you hire them without seeing any code from them?
- bovermyer 10y ago"Passion for the craft" refers to a general set of attributes, most often typified by an excitement for development, a desire to tinker, curiosity on how things work, and demonstration of sustained levels of these traits over a long period of time (e.g., years or decades). It's pretty easy to tell the difference between a candidate who genuinely loves coding and a candidate who just wants a job. And yes, we sometimes hire without even seeing any code from a given candidate. We have yet to be disappointed.