Cedric Chin on Twitter: "@SamTaylors_ear On the contrary: if you find a technique that allows you to reduce management problems earlier in the value chain, you should test that first, instead of settling for downstream techniques. (This is a core principle in Grove's High Output Management; and it's really useful.)" / Twitter

The problem with this piece is that it sounds vaguely Machiavellian. defmacro.substack.com/p/how-to-inter The other problem with it is that it passes all my taste tests: it matches my experience with designing hiring systems for software engineers. Slava's process is likely to work.

spakhm.com

How to interview engineers

Interviews are filled with posturing, political correctness, and socially convenient falsehoods that have everything to do with large company recruiting constraints and nothing to do with you.

1

2

5

Cedric Chin

@ejames_c

Oct 13, 2020

(Of course, it goes without saying that his process is highly adapted to his context (US, hard database problems); if I were to apply it to Singapore or Vietnam, it would need to be modified. But that's true of every practically useful thing.)

3

This Tweet was deleted by the Tweet author. Learn more

Cedric Chin

@ejames_c

On the contrary: if you find a technique that allows you to reduce management problems earlier in the value chain, you should test that first, instead of settling for downstream techniques. (This is a core principle in Grove's High Output Management; and it's really useful.)

5:26 AM · Oct 13, 2020TweetDeck

This Tweet was deleted by the Tweet author. Learn more

Show replies

Conversation