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Principles for hiring engineers (Interview)

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source

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The Hiring Process in the Tech Industry

The hiring process in the tech industry is notoriously bad. What are your thoughts on, if you could whittle it down, like, what's wrong with it? I don't think it's just softwar engineers. The real problem is that when you join a new company to write software, it can take weeks or even months to become fully productive with the tooling. We ignore hundreds of years of management theory because we get computers and that makes us different.

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