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Re: Ten Ways to Screw Up an On-Site Interview
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Posted: Aug 28, 2010 9:48 PM
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My experience is anedoctic, I can only speak about what I have seen happening here in Milan, and I am not in charge of hiring. Nevertheless, let me explain how it works.
We use Python as our main language, so our strategy has been to leverage on the Python community and the Italian newsgroup. In particular we have been sponsors of the Italian PyCon from the beginning, especially for hiring purposes. Since we know the community, we know the people. If I am going to hire a guy with a thousand posts on i.c.l.py I already have a pretty good idea of his technical competence and also of his personality and I do not need a long interview. Also, if a prospective candidate is involved in an Open Source project, I do not need to ask him coding question: I can just download his code and have a look at it. For instance, I could hire Kay Schluehr here with a 10 minutes interview, without asking him any technical question, because I already know he is competent, just from his posts/projects.
The strategy has worked well for us whereas using the services of Monster or other agencies has been totally useless (we got tons of CVs from Monster, but totally uninteresting). All the people we hired turned out to fit extremely well with our team, I suppose because the Open Source community attracts similar-minded people. We have quite a lot of hacker types here ;-)
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