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Oops, that's not the passage I was thinking of. I'll try to find it again, but basically he says that when they needed to hire programmers, instead of using a
by gnuvince 13y ago
Oops, that's not the passage I was thinking of. I'll try to find it again, but basically he says that when they needed to hire programmers, instead of using a site like monster.com or jobboom.com, they went on the OCaml mailing lists, posted the offer there. They got a few responses (~15 I believe?) and of those, 10 were worth a phone interview and 5 were worth flying in to NYC for a face-to-face interview. I think they ended up hiring 2 or 3 of those candidates. He described the process as being very easy because 1) OCaml programmers are interested in working with OCaml, 2) the typical OCaml programmer is better (or at least more curious) than the average programmer, because they went ahead and learned a relatively unpopular language that's unlikely to help them get a job in 99.9% of workplaces.