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How Should You Interview a Programmer?
phamlen asks: "Having hired several programmers who haven't worked out, I'm wondering if other people have better success with interviewing techniques. Usually we have a two 'technical interviews' and a final interview. The technical interviews tend to be a combination of specific technical questions ('Is friendship inherited? How would you find out?') and algorithmic ('Given the numbers from 1-10 missing one number, how do you find the missing number?'). In addition, we essentially try to interview for: intelligence/performance. technical skills (algorithmic, etc.), and team compatibility. Unfortunately, we've been burned a couple of times by people whose performance didn't measure up to what we expected from the interviews. So I'm wondering if other people wanted to share their interviewing tricks - how do you find out if someone is a good programmer?" Surprisingly enough, we've done a series of these, so if you are interested in similar questions for sysadmins,
network engineers, or the one who will follow in your footsteps, then we've got it covered. We've also covered core IT questions as well. What special ways do you have of evaluating potential coders? How well have they worked out?
Word to your mother
Whats wrong with Gimp? Gimp is a brilliant demonstration of open source success. Just because you are a fan of Gecko and like to use Mozilla to surf the web doesn't mean a company should descriminate who they hire on the basis of an unhealthy regard for Photoshop. Quite frankly this disregard for the merits of Gimp is an insult to free-thinkers everywhere. Gimp is a fantastic application that saves money for everyone looking for an affordable alternative to the Russian- programmer-hating Adobe corporation. After all, the Russians are surely more friendly and helpful than half of the US Federal government. This same government that is building a fascist police agency to control its own citizens. This same government that allows a convicted monopolist corporation to begin designing a real method of siezing everyone's data. How many of you think Palladium will help anyone, except MS? And once in place, it follows that the DoJ will start requesting access to that information to use against its own citizens. A little quid pro quo perhaps? The DoJ doesn't shutdown MS' monopoly, MS turns over any customer information to the DoJ. Lets not forget that the DoJ wants to arrest everyday users of Napster or other file sharing applications. And for what? Trading songs? What is that about? Hasn't anyone ever traded baseball cards? Whose licensing agreement were we violation then? Topps?
So before you attack Gimp, I suggest you consider what you are saying.
Is it remove a state from the union? Or like, remove a state, sink California? ;p
I think my answer is Wyoming, either way, since it has the least number of people. Am I completely missing the point?
Well, *I*'ll factor out all your code into :)
LGPL library, and if you still have a problem,
claim prior ownership of the code
Considered harmful.
i would have to say [insert whatever name of the state i am currently in here] because then i would not have to deal with the IRS anymore.
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Moderating Trolls?