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What types of concrete traits/habits do you look for in a candidate? Do you have any examples of traits/habits that wouldn't fit in the with your team, company

• jamestomasino 8y ago
  A good example is burst-workers. I've had a number on the team in the past and it inevitably leads to difficulties. In a solo project it may work well for an individual to mess around online for a few hours before cramming in a bunch of work very quickly. You may finish the same amount of work by the end of the day. Unfortunately in my team environment, the small steps made throughout the day affect the rest of the team's progress, our ability to give proper status updates, and foresee challenges. This alone may not dissuade me from hiring someone, but things like this add up in the negatives column.
• fyfy18 8y ago
  To follow up from GPs point I’m in a similar situation and have been doing a lot of interviews recently. We are a fast growing startup, with under 20 people, and tight deadlines (from investors). A lot of the candidates we’ve interviewed just don’t have the experience working in that sort of environment. We don’t have time to write code perfectly at the moment with pairing, full test coverage, fully TDD, etc. Yes people can learn this, but if you come across as someone who will just spend all day conplaining about that I don’t want you on the team. Another thing is simple skills like turning up on time. We recently had a couple of on-site interviews (after phone calls) where the candidates turned up more than 30 minutes late, with no good excuse.
  • noaccount1256 8y ago
    Do you consider tardiness or skill level ‘culture fit’? I don’t.