3 Jan
2023
3 Jan
'23
2:51 a.m.
On Mon, Jan 02, 2023 at 01:38:30PM -0700, arnold(a)skeeve.com wrote:
Larry McVoy <lm(a)mcvoy.com> wrote:
None that I kept. Miss-hired some who didn't pass and let them go eventually.
Whether that question actually is that good of an indicator in general, I
couldn't say. It was a pretty solid one for what we did.
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Larry McVoy Retired to fishing http://www.mcvoy.com/lm/boat
The /bin/sh stuff made me think of an interview
question I had for engineers,
that a surprisingly few could pass:
"Tell me about something you wrote that was entirely you, the docs, the
tests, the source, the installer, everything. It doesn't have to be a
big thing, but it has to have been successfully used by at least 10
people who had no contact with you (other than to say thanks)."
Most people fail this. I think the people who pass might look
positively on the v7 sh stuff. But who knows?
How many people who failed this question did you hire anyway?