Developer hiring and the market for lemons http://danluu.com/hiring-lemons/
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Dan Luu Retweeted Zach Holman
I've thought about this
@holman tweet at least once a week since last July. Even when I've worked on things that are considered relatively hard (e.g., an algorithm that won best paper award at a top conf), the work hasn't been interview-style hard.https://twitter.com/holman/status/886428616694702080 …Dan Luu added,
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To the extent that things are hard, it's been stuff like: Your TL thinks version control and automated tests are a waste of time. How do you convince them otherwise? Your team has 75% turnover in well under a year for... reasons. How do you stay productive?
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An AltaVista employee says that a major reason Google won was that AltaVista failed to update its index for months, while Google was growing rapidly. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19172705 … https://searchenginewatch.com/sew/study/2068075/search-engine-sizes …pic.twitter.com/4KMgbQhYL7
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