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>As do in-depth technical discussions about ... just about any subject the candidate claims to know about. Having attempted to do this after reading all the HN
by esyir 5y ago
>As do in-depth technical discussions about ... just about any subject the candidate claims to know about.
Having attempted to do this after reading all the HN screeds, I found that this failed horribly. You'll find a large number of people who seemingly know the theory, but can't execute worth a damn. They can happily talk on and on about normalization, regularization, imbalanced datasets and so on. Then they fail fizzbuzz.
I then put the programming screen first.
- vanusa 5y agoTry talking about execution, not theory.
- Jensson 5y agoYou can't communicate experience like you can communicate theory, if you could then it would be called theory instead of practice. Theory is great since it is something we can communicate, whatever instincts you developed working on a big codebase can't be communicated. Some people thing you can, there are lots of talks about these things etc, but in practice you can't teach practice, you need to experience it yourself. And if you distil practice into pure enough droplets of wisdom that others can recognize as the truth without being your in-group, guess what, that is what we call theory!
- pjmlp 5y agoTalk about how the candidate used technology X in practice, what was their role in the project, what worked in practice and what not, how they would approach the bad decisions in retrospective of the lessons learned while using X.