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by qd011 965 days ago
So what is the Oxide hiring process?

> Interviews shouldn’t necessarily take one form; interviewers should feel free to take a variety of styles and approaches

I guess we still don't know.

> Author: Bryan Cantrill

> the act of writing — like so much else that we do — requires not only the ability to create wholly new material, but also the ability to reflect, correct, revise, and polish.

Oh Bryan, you could have spent your time doing some actual work instead of being pretentious to the tune of 4700 words and still not saying anything useful to anyone.

3 comments

So, hiring is the most important thing we do -- and much of the reason that we've been able to do what we've been able to do with an extraordinarily small team is because of the care the team takes with respect to hiring. I appreciate that our style and yours differ greatly; it sounds like we wouldn't particularly like working with one another -- and we both can take solace that with this document (and your comment here!), there is no doubt.
This is golden as a response to Bryan Cantrill! It's right up there with 'do you have a Putnam?' being asked of cperciva :-)
What's your point, that I shouldn't criticise him because he has a wikipedia page?

A bad article is bad regardless of what the author has achieved during his career as a whole.

At least now we know how the company is run