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I'm a believer in Joel Spolsky's recruiting goal: "Smart and gets things done."[0] Add "not a jerk" (which I find is part of "gets things done" on an ongoing b
by yodon 2y ago
I'm a believer in Joel Spolsky's recruiting goal: "Smart and gets things done."[0]
Add "not a jerk" (which I find is part of "gets things done" on an ongoing basis) and everything else is either vanity or decision paralysis on the part of the interviewer.
[0]https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2007/06/05/smart-and-gets-things-done/ https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2007/06/05/smart-and-gets-thi...
- coev 2y agoThe article is from someone whose final-boss interview was with...joel spolsky. And it was a pretty useless-in-the-real-world question he was given as a coding exercise (base -2 number conversion).
- yodon 2y agoThe base -2 question was asked by someone other than Joel, and definitely fits in the category of interviewer vanity questions.
- darrenkopp 2y agoYeah interview before Joel was base -2 conversion. Joel's interview was mostly a chat and we mostly talked about my dog (and other things I'm sure but I only remember talking about dogs).