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Hazards of Hiring

www.ericsink.com

In 1998, SourceGear was looking to hire a full-time person in technical support. It really is true that the best coders are gifted with an aptitude. They are perhaps ten times more productive than average coders. Granted, a lot of these coders are driven purely out of hatred for Microsoft. If this candidate has a Ph.D.,

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Job interviews go both ways (My story with Netscape in ’98)

Diego Basch

In a previous post I mentioned an interview I had at Netscape in 1998. Nobody seemed excited about open-sourcing the code, the original people were leaving, the coder gurus projected strange attitudes to a lowly candidate. Some ask questions everyone should ask, such as the financial situation of the company.