Hey, I just listen to that podcast and for me it was offensive. Like you guys were sentence to hire people and all other people at your companies are too stupid to do it, so you have to do it. I'm sorry that you can't fire them.
I just don't understand, if you hate that then ask other people from your team if they would like to try it. I bet more then one person would like to at least try it. you could "code review" his decision and ignore it, but at least make someone else feel like they matter. I admit I did not listen the whole thing and after somebody said that he does lunch interviews I turned it off. I just don't understand what kind of insensitive monster would do that. why? a person (or a thing that you might hire) might be under a lot of stress. what is the best way to make him more miserable? why not go for a lunch with someone who might decide your future? you enjoy eating with strangers when you are stressed? I don't, you don't care. I do know some people that stay in the same company forever, because they are really scared of being interviewed. Maybe they don't enjoy being rejected, because they don't have enought soft skills to sit in front of your company's computer for 8 hours a day. they should learn how to talk to customer - maybe train on teddy bear? its a very useful skill when all you do is debug and write code. on your open-source rant you forgot to mention that you only hire people that do open-source. do you even use git at your company? P.S. sorry if I sound a little bit angry, but trust me that being interviewed is more stressful. you are like banks, you can't fail. -- 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.
