L' Eomot Inversé (2/11/2014)

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If it takes a weird question to get the candidate...

Miles Neale (2/11/2014)

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Sean,

We have to find a way to justify any hire, and we try to use what tools and...

IMHO oddball questions are not reliable or valid means of determining a candidates competence or fit for a job.

A few weeks ago I read a paper by some sociologists about...

Keith Hays (10/29/2013)

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mtucker-732014 (10/28/2013)

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It is fun to see how people rationalise things that are clearly not rational, especially when there are so many counter examples

my favourite so far was that...

It is fun to see how people rationalise things that are clearly not rational, especially when there are so many counter examples

my favourite so far was that it is harder...

Keith Hays (10/27/2013)

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...and I can tell you that if you show up for an interview or a meeting the first time I meet you and you look like you slept...

This is a problem in many businesses and I believe stems from the near universal idea that a business should maximise shareholder value ahead of value generated for other stakeholders...

I find that having a well defined process, insisting on some sort of written spec, and version control can take a lot of the stress away

Interviews are just a second rate way of evaluating someone for a job, even well thought out interviews combined with tests arent that great. And there are so many sites...

I once did about 3 months of pair programming with my boss/senior developer at the start of a new job and I can say that it gets old pretty quickly,...

call.copse (9/4/2012)

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mtucker-732014 (9/3/2012)

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I dont need to have been to Defcon to write about an article that someone has written. My evidence is Valerie's article, which as you can see if...

I dont need to have been to Defcon to write about an article that someone has written. My evidence is Valerie's article, which as you can see if you read...

I havent been to a Defcon so cant speak from first hand experience.

Neither apparently can Valerie.

I read her article and she has plenty of second and third hand stories of...

I think it is important that employers/interviewers act with integrity. Mind games and tricks may or may not be effective at finding the right/best person for a job but they...

No need for brutality - you can be honest without being brutal