David Kerr
Posts: 1
Nickname: decanibass
Registered: Feb, 2010
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Re: Rapid Hiring & Firing to Build the Best Teams
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Posted: Feb 10, 2010 9:51 AM
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Personally, after two decades of working with closed minded, mediocre colleagues, not prepared to learn, resting on their laurels, I CRAVE to work for an organisation that recognises real development talent. I have worked on so many projects where the developers don't care, that for someone like me who is passionate about software development it breaks my heart. I would welcome working for a company that wants the best (because I consider myself to be amongst them). I can imagine the buzz would be great.
Perhaps its a measure of confidence, or having a "winning" attitude. Many of the comments here seem to be defeatist, and demonstrate the current malaise of thinking work is "their right".
I don't read anywhere in the original idea that good talent is not nurtured, or that developers are not treated as people, instead of interchangeable "heads". In some ways, I would say Kayak sounds like a more humane company. There's certainly less BS.
I wonder if there isn't some less draconian way of performing this extended interview, perhaps 1st step (before interview) would be a real-life programming task, which would be reviewed not just for correctness, but also to demonstrate good design and coding practices. Discover the passion and ability to deliver.
When interviewing, I have taken people to the pub or for a game of pool (etc) to find out about them. HR don't typically approve of bohemian ideas like this though!
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