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by russell
6368 days ago
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Are we all disqualified because we waste too much time on HN? Reading looks like a good wheat from chaff question because someone who reads is continually educating him/herself. What gets points for a candidate? Language/framework books, algorithms, professional practices, essays, science fiction? |
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There is a world of difference between the people of the world who are interested in making themselves better developers and computer scientists and the people who just want to do the minimum necessary for a job.
Other than the obvious requirement of some modicum of honesty on a resume (like... if you're going to say you know Haskell on your resume, you'd better be prepared to tell me what a monad is), reading has been the best indicator of a hire for me than anything else. Of course, just because someone says they read a ton of books doesn't mean they're going to get a job, but I'll only do face to face interviews with people who give a shit about what they do.
We don't do the caliber of stuff that requires deep discussion about sorting a million integers with only 2MB of memory, but we do like to keep our shop as small as is humanly possible in order to keep the quality level as high as we can.