Ask HN: Programmer Compatibility Questions
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Hmmm... Programmers all share different flavors of common hells that seem to originate in HR or non-technical management -- you can do better than multiple-choice and yes/no questions and improve your dataset at the same time.
Ask them to:
Describe their worst interview
Complain about recruiters
Describe their worst cubicle-mate
Craft the perfect daily scrum session
Describe the dumbest flavor-of-the-week woke matchmaking attempt, "team building", personality quiz, or psychological assessment they've suffered
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Tease out the answers and see if you can derive commonality with your culture that way. :)
Ask them to:
Describe their worst interview
Complain about recruiters
Describe their worst cubicle-mate
Craft the perfect daily scrum session
Describe the dumbest flavor-of-the-week woke matchmaking attempt, "team building", personality quiz, or psychological assessment they've suffered
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Tease out the answers and see if you can derive commonality with your culture that way. :)
Show them some bad code and pray they recognize it and have similar feedback as you.
It’s as simple as that, you really can’t know their taste any other way.
It’s as simple as that, you really can’t know their taste any other way.
Servers need to be manually rebooted multi times per day. It’s getting worse.
Your task is to add a todo calendar to the website by Monday.
What advise do you give?
Your task is to add a todo calendar to the website by Monday.
What advise do you give?
Can you think of non technical questions that would help predict if you’d get along with someone on a team? Examples:
- tabs or spaces? (Tabs, spaces, I doesn’t matter as long as we are consistent)
- what’s the largest diff you feel comfortable sending for a code review? (30 lines, 100 lines, 1000 lines)
- Do you refactor code without first discussing it with the person who wrote it?
etc...