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Principles for hiring engineers (Interview)

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source

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Is the Three Hours a Limit or a Constraint?

The three hours is more like an upper limit. I really don't want people spending longer than that. And it starts to get into again, what are we measuring here? Are we measuring something that correlates with job performance? Or we measuringsomething that correlates with free time? Because i don't want to hire someone who has more free time. I want the candidate who will be best at the job. You know this is an organization that is keenly aware of the difference between paid labor and volunteer labor. They are very cognizant of the fact that they are involved in a non-profit 501(c)3 which can do things for their employees without compensation. The soter freedom

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