Hacker Bits, Issue 12
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ask you any questions they have on Friday, and make sure to be available for their questions via email<br />
over the weekend. The goal is to create an environment of success (hopefully like you would for an<br />
employee).<br />
RULE #6 — Pay them immediately on Monday<br />
Hire them or not, something about giving them a check after they present their solution is the best way<br />
to start or end a relationship.<br />
To hire or not to hire that is the question<br />
Indicators you should hire this person:<br />
• During the meeting on Friday they asked a lot of clarifying questions<br />
• The questions were thought out and made sure that nothing was misunderstood<br />
• The solution addressed your problem using the technologies and techniques you prescribed<br />
• They read the entire problem and followed the instructions correctly (i.e. if the problem said use<br />
PostgreSQL, they didn’t give you queries that only work on Oracle DBs)<br />
Indicators you shouldn’t hire this person:<br />
• They refuse to do the project because “someone will hire me without it”<br />
• Didn’t complete the project correctly<br />
• They can’t articulate their design/coding decisions and why they were made<br />
• They get defensive when presenting their solution<br />
In summary<br />
Your mileage may vary, but I found this technique to work wonders for hiring talented tech talent.<br />
While my sample size may not be huge, I’ve yet to have it lead to a bad hire.<br />
About me<br />
I’m a polyglot developer deeply interested in high performance, scalability, software architecture and<br />
generally solving hard problems. You can follow me on Medium where I blog about software engineering,<br />
follow me on Twitter where I occasionally say interesting things, or check out my contributions to<br />
the FOSS community on GitHub. •<br />
Reprinted with permission of the original author. First appeared at medium.com/swlh.<br />
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