If you interview people by asking for war stories or the object oriented design of a chicken you will hire people who are good at ...
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One additional pathology of "war stories" is that they select for folks who will *not* answer "I executed competently on a reasonable plan."
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"I executed competently on a reasonable plan" is, believe it or not, a thing in the tech industry, but it makes for a really sucky narrative
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all the best devs i'vr ever known have been good storytellers because code IS communication.
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Even if that were true to my experience, I wouldn't search for storytelling ability, because many good storytellers aren't good devs
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Artists who tell stories through code will still have jobs long after robots have replaced the other kind of software engineer.
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