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How to Freaking Find Great Developers By Having Them Read Code | Freaking Rectangle

#advice #bestpractices #culture #hiring #interview #programming | <blockquote>Reading probes the most fundamental skills. Reading code is probably 95% of what a developer does as part of their job. Whether a developer is writing new code, fixing bugs, or creating documentation, they are constantly reading. What abilities does a coder need to read code well? There are two important ones: 1) The ability to remember variables and stack locations and 2) The ability to generalize a piece of code once they understand it. I can memorize interview coding quest...

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Staying on the path to high performing teams. | Irrational Exuberance

#building #career #collaboration #hiring #management #programming | <blockquote>As a caveat, the system fix is to hire net-new people, increasing the overall capacity of the company. Sometimes folks instead attempt to capture more resources from existing company, and I’m pretty negative on that. People are not fungible, and generally folks end up in useful places, so I’m skeptical of reassigning existing folks to drive optimality. By nature, it’s also impossible for this kind of discussion to not become political, even when everyone involved has deep trust and r...

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The best technical interview question ever

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