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+1. I found my most recent hire at Microsoft this way. She was the top performer on my team and continues to do excellent work at the company. Also it’s importa
by localhost 6y ago
+1. I found my most recent hire at Microsoft this way. She was the top performer on my team and continues to do excellent work at the company. Also it’s important to choose your project wisely as well. I wasn’t looking to hire anyone in particular. The recommendation came out of a casual conversation with the creator of the open source project.
- andreygrehov 6y agoI'm curious, how does the interview look like for these people? Do they still have to go through all the coding/system design rounds?
- matt_s 6y agoI also would assume and sincerely hope the stupid tests around "can this person write software?" are eliminated when you have people on the team _using_ software the candidate wrote.
- katsura 6y agoNot at google: https://twitter.com/mxcl/status/608682016205344768 https://twitter.com/mxcl/status/608682016205344768
- localhost 6y agoIt would be the same as for anyone else. I also recused myself from her loop to make it as impartial as possible. She got the job on merit. That's the important thing here.