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Interviewing Engineers? Enough with the Whiteboard Coding!

Diego Basch

There’s a lot of superstition in engineering interviews, and here’s where I need to pull my credentials. I’ve been interviewing software engineers since the 90s. The point of an engineering interview is to figure out if you want to hire a person or not. Java, Ruby, Python and C will be available. Well, you get my point.

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What is Drupal? or, My retraining in Software Development

Scalable Startup

The So Cal engineering gap? Drupal has a worldwide engine of real software discipline. Then last year I decided to re-educate myself in software development, but this time as a regular ol’ coder. I’ve been able to study the Southern Cal software dev scene as an insider for over 2 years now. are built on Drupal.

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How Black People Leveraged Tech Bigotry to Boss the Blockchain Below the Radar

Austin Startup

The Afro-Tech operates on a basis of permissionless innovation — we do not need pre-approval to be black and innovative in tech and as for me, I been doing advanced and epic Internet tech stuff since 1994 so I’m not exactly someone that is easily impressed by an “ex-Google engineer” like the rest of yall, just saying.

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The maker/manager transition phase

joel.is

The great piece is focused around two sets of distinct people in a startup: makers (typically coders) and managers (those with lots of meetings). So, for 2-3 months, I spent 50% of my time coding Java, and 50% doing manager tasks. If you’re a JavaScript engineer in the bay area, I’d love to hear from you.

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Where is the best place to find a rockstar developer to bring it to life?

www.quora.com

He , Srikanth Narayan , Ben Werdmuller von Elgg , Jo Vi Ko , Justin Lee , Giovanni Tardini , David de Weerdt , Vineet Thanedar , Ryan Brideau , Jonathan Meiri , Rob Weedn , Krzysztof Kowalczyk , Greg Pilling , Kevin Leland , Parham Michael Ossareh , Dan Loewenherz , Mary Specht , Engin Erdo?an "I am a creative guy with a startup idea."

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

But my coders will beat up your coders, any day of the week. As one of the coherent commentators says below, Joel Spolsky himself laments schools teaching Java with the same basic reasoning of my article above, albeit more diplomatically stated.) .NET The very last comment takes the cake, however, and is a fitting close.

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How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen

sivers.org

Nothing essential that I disagree with you in your post, but when read by other people with minimal software engineering experience, they can have too high expectations. Would love to hear your insights sometime into how to partner with engineers. Dont go C or Java, python is good for prototyping and easier to learn.