True, incl. the question "Do you have a blog", which can be seen as replacing the CV (signals capacity and exposes capabilities). But even that is unreliable, my personal hero, Anders Hejlsberg, has no blog!
On Aug 26, 7:26 am, Cédric Beust ♔ <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 10:08 PM, Casper Bang <[email protected]> wrote: > > If your definition of a "senior developer", means one whose CV matches > > your buzz word stream 100% > > My interpretation is that these interview questions are more geared toward > finding someone that's exactly like you, which is a very common pitfall when > interviewing. > > The question "Do you read blogs?" is particularly telling, especially if > you're going to count a negative response as going against hiring this > person. I don't want to overly generalize, but I know a lot of brilliant > developers who pretty much never read books, blogs or articles because they > are simply too busy delivering awesome stuff. > > Go ahead, ask the blog question, but make sure you analyze the response > objectively, because even someone who doesn't read books might have > something to teach you. > > -- > Cédric -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
