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Hiring Developers
Mission: impossible?
ALT.NET Paris December 2013
ALT.NET Pariswww.altnetfr.orgwww.meetup.com/altnetfr
Julien Lavigne du Cadethttp://www.linkedin.com/in/julienlavigneducadet @julienlavigne
This talk is not about convincing developers to
join you
It’s about interviewing
The start of a debate?
Disclaimers
Context matters
Interviewers make a judgement call…
with limited information!
Obvious stuff?
The Resume Screening
Diploma?
“One of the things we’ve seen from all our data crunching is that G.P.A.’s are worthless as a criteria for hiring, and test scores are worthless”
Laszlo Bock, senior vice president of people operations at Google
But I do trust*:
Resume LengthSpelling Mistakes
* … to skip the resume…
The Interview Process
The worst process ever?
The worst process ever?
No technical questions…
Are you hiring developers or sales people?
The funnel effect…
What I like about a candidate*
* In no specific order
He knows the basics
He reads about software development
He does his homework
He learns between interviews
He knows how to code basic stuff…
He knows how to code basic stuff…
… and how to test it!
And he does not lie
The real question:
Do I want to work with this guy?
I have mixed feelings about:
Brainteasers
Writing algorithm
I really don’t care about:
Framework X or Y
If you already work in my field
Some final tips
There’s no stupid question
Me: How many bits in a byte?
Me: How many bits in a byte?
Candidate: 3.
Go in depth
Candidate: I don’t like recursion.
Me: Why?
Candidate: I don’t like recursion.
Me: Why?
Candidate: because it involves a context switch.
Thank you