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

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