Interviewing, and Quantity Time
Interviewing is hard. You don’t need me to tell you that, but it bears repeating regardless — the stakes are high, and the repercussions from making a bad choice can be enormous. Oh, the negative impact can seem smaller as your team size grows, but that is an illusion — the loss of productivity across the entire team can easily swamp the (illusory) benefits of making a bad choice. (•) There are an (higher order of) infinity of articles around how to go about interviewing people, including some seriously weird s**t. I won’t get into any of that here, but will cover some of the main things I look for when interviewing. Mind you, most of these focus — intentionally — on soft skills . In most cases, these tend to be the dominant factor in the success or failure of projects (and this only increases with the number of people on the project) /via http://explosm.net/comics/2717/ 1. Chemistry (aka: “Va...