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How do you tell who is truly senior without giving them some sort of a test? Such test are inconvenient for the truly senior folk. And they keep the others out
by koliber 2y ago
How do you tell who is truly senior without giving them some sort of a test?
Such test are inconvenient for the truly senior folk. And they keep the others out of the jobs that require the senior experience.
- uberman 2y agoI have a conversation about application architecture, coding issue candidates have faced in the past and how they resolved those issues. I look at their GitHub profiles and I check letters of recommendation. For some positions we give a take home mini-project that is clearly not related to our current projects. Senior people can usually tell you the mistakes they made as a junior dev and what they learned from those mistakes. They understand the nuanced differences between code ownership and accountability. Frankly I could care less if a candidate can balance a tree, that is what the standard library is for or google or chatgpt. On the other hand, I am interested in knowing if a senior client understands why you might want to balance a tree or knowing when to force a full table scan rather than use an index.