From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=MAILING_LIST_MULTI autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Received: (qmail 11361 invoked from network); 2 Jan 2023 20:52:18 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (50.116.15.146) by inbox.vuxu.org with ESMTPUTF8; 2 Jan 2023 20:52:18 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8BD3F424BD; Tue, 3 Jan 2023 06:51:55 +1000 (AEST) Received: from mcvoy.com (mcvoy.com [192.169.23.250]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4B4EE424AF for ; Tue, 3 Jan 2023 06:51:51 +1000 (AEST) Received: by mcvoy.com (Postfix, from userid 3546) id EA37635E11A; Mon, 2 Jan 2023 12:51:50 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 2 Jan 2023 12:51:50 -0800 From: Larry McVoy To: arnold@skeeve.com Message-ID: <20230102205150.GW25547@mcvoy.com> References: <20230102203646.GT25547@mcvoy.com> <202301022038.302KcUrB026704@freefriends.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <202301022038.302KcUrB026704@freefriends.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.24 (2015-08-30) Message-ID-Hash: 6VLPYJ2UYVNCLQUQOAVAYTMI22ZIERIF X-Message-ID-Hash: 6VLPYJ2UYVNCLQUQOAVAYTMI22ZIERIF X-MailFrom: lm@mcvoy.com X-Mailman-Rule-Misses: dmarc-mitigation; no-senders; approved; emergency; loop; banned-address; member-moderation; header-match-tuhs.tuhs.org-0; nonmember-moderation; administrivia; implicit-dest; max-recipients; max-size; news-moderation; no-subject; digests; suspicious-header CC: tuhs@tuhs.org X-Mailman-Version: 3.3.6b1 Precedence: list Subject: [TUHS] Re: Interview question List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list Archived-At: List-Archive: List-Help: List-Owner: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: On Mon, Jan 02, 2023 at 01:38:30PM -0700, arnold@skeeve.com wrote: > Larry McVoy 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. -- --- Larry McVoy Retired to fishing http://www.mcvoy.com/lm/boat