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This lines up with what I finally concluded (and blogged about) as well - find some small, somewhat isolated project and pay them for it. My preference would be
by poulsbohemian 8y ago
This lines up with what I finally concluded (and blogged about) as well - find some small, somewhat isolated project and pay them for it. My preference would be for it to be a project you actually intend to use, especially if they also need to interact with your team in some small way. This way you get to actually seem them in action - how do they communicate, what questions do they ask, how do they approach the project. You see the candidate in the context in which you intend for them work.
- netaustin 8y agoWe've toyed with either paying them for something we can use or asking them to add a feature to one of the open source projects under our care — but in either case, you lose the reliability and objectivity of the task, because different candidates will have better or worse prompts. Using the same prompt for everyone means we can use the same rubric for everyone.