Question: when hiring engineers, do you look for positive reasons to hire someone (they’ve done something good, have a good capability, a particular strength or good potential), or do you look for reasons not to hire someone (not enough experience, no degree, failed a question you asked)?
On some logical level, it seems a meaningless distinction. [...]
Archive for July, 2009
Why hiring is all about elimination
Posted in Management on July 11, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Getting the best out of a programmer
Posted in Game development on July 7, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Although I don’t write much code any more, I still think of myself as a programmer; I still have programmer tendencies in everyday life, like trying to “optimise” the world around me. When I was in hospital just last week, I was quietly infuriated when they did the scan before the blood test, forcing me [...]
