Productivity

How to interview [memo]

Just met this nice article by Laurie Voss called You suck at technical interviews.

Here is TL;DR from there:

Here is the link to original post

Frontend Developer interview. Help for interviewers (1)

The problem

I’m not a huge fan of questions on interviews similar to:

Live coding is not something I like as well due to some reasons.

What really helps me to understand how good candidate is, is to discuss some real situations with him/her.

Below is one hypothetical projects to discuss with a candidate.

Frontend Developer interview. Help for interviewers (2)

If you didn’t look at Part 1 of this post please check it out.

Project 2

Given a news site and its admin area. In admin area there are many users. Each user can edit a news-post.

Our goal is to make sure only one user can edit a post even if multiple users are visited the same news-post for editing. Users visited a news-post after the first user should see the “someone else is editing the post” message.

Work remotely by Julia Evans

Really, really awesome blog post from Julia Evans about working remotely.

She has described every worry I have and explained how she managed work over them.

Just found out her blog and it seems very interesting in general.