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I thought the Office Hours this year were borderline mean spirited. When a team is willing to come and be grilled in front of 1,700 people, it needs to be done

I thought the Office Hours this year were borderline mean spirited. When a team is willing to come and be grilled in front of 1,700 people, it needs to be done with a lot of tact. If you rip someone apart in a public environment like that, it becomes about you, and not about the company that you're critiquing. Sam and PG did a great job last year. They seemed to be able to hit the right balance of probing questions while being respectful of the people they were interviewing.

cperciva 12y ago
I thought the Office Hours this year were borderline mean spirited. They didn't seem mean spirited to me; but they certainly did rip people apart (especially with the UI critique). At the end of that I left thinking "I'm glad they weren't doing this on Tarsnap, because they would probably have opened patio11's blog post and read the whole thing out in front of everybody".
- Patrick_Devine 12y ago
  The UI critique to me was crazy. They were interviewing a B2B company which wasn't using their website as a lead generator. Plus, given the space, the website wasn't really all that bad compared to anyone else. If they had been critiquing a B2C company, I would have agreed more, but really I thought the most insightful feedback was to make the API documentation more prominent.