From: Larry McVoy <lm@mcvoy.com>
To: arnold@skeeve.com
Cc: tuhs@tuhs.org
Subject: [TUHS] Re: Interview question
Date: Mon, 2 Jan 2023 12:51:50 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230102205150.GW25547@mcvoy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <202301022038.302KcUrB026704@freefriends.org>
On Mon, Jan 02, 2023 at 01:38:30PM -0700, arnold@skeeve.com wrote:
> Larry McVoy <lm@mcvoy.com> wrote:
>
> > The /bin/sh stuff made me think of an interview question I had for engineers,
> > that a surprisingly few could pass:
> >
> > "Tell me about something you wrote that was entirely you, the docs, the
> > tests, the source, the installer, everything. It doesn't have to be a
> > big thing, but it has to have been successfully used by at least 10
> > people who had no contact with you (other than to say thanks)."
> >
> > Most people fail this. I think the people who pass might look
> > positively on the v7 sh stuff. But who knows?
>
> How many people who failed this question did you hire anyway?
None that I kept. Miss-hired some who didn't pass and let them go eventually.
Whether that question actually is that good of an indicator in general, I
couldn't say. It was a pretty solid one for what we did.
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Larry McVoy Retired to fishing http://www.mcvoy.com/lm/boat
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-01-02 20:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-01-02 20:36 [TUHS] " Larry McVoy
2023-01-02 20:38 ` [TUHS] " arnold
2023-01-02 20:51 ` Larry McVoy [this message]
2023-01-03 4:44 ` Ori Idan
2023-01-03 5:15 ` Rich Morin
2023-01-03 5:32 ` Ajay Shah
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