All very fair points, I suppose it just comes down to whatever the particular company is looking for. At the time it was important to find people that showed enthusiasm and would fit well with the rest of the engineers.…
Very aggressive screening at the outset, with all the submissions in an easy to read list. At my last job, we would ignore every single submission that didn't have a cover letter. If the cover letter has even the…
Very cool idea! Caught it out with "What is a lie that is always true?" > A lie that is always true is when people say "I'm fine" when something is really wrong. Even if there is a problem, a lot of people will say "I'm…
I'll say that on the whole it seems to be getting better with time. Most people have already mentioned Rust / Go as examples of this. I do agree it is an issue. Doing away with node_modules completely on the last rails…
That was the most surprising thing to me by far. Dangerous game to play, imagine trying to convince a judge that "I was not intentionally looking for trouble".
All very fair points, I suppose it just comes down to whatever the particular company is looking for. At the time it was important to find people that showed enthusiasm and would fit well with the rest of the engineers.…
Very aggressive screening at the outset, with all the submissions in an easy to read list. At my last job, we would ignore every single submission that didn't have a cover letter. If the cover letter has even the…
Very cool idea! Caught it out with "What is a lie that is always true?" > A lie that is always true is when people say "I'm fine" when something is really wrong. Even if there is a problem, a lot of people will say "I'm…
I'll say that on the whole it seems to be getting better with time. Most people have already mentioned Rust / Go as examples of this. I do agree it is an issue. Doing away with node_modules completely on the last rails…
That was the most surprising thing to me by far. Dangerous game to play, imagine trying to convince a judge that "I was not intentionally looking for trouble".