On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 9:32 AM, Quim Gil <[email protected]> wrote:
> As part of the WMF hiring and onboarding process, we could ask > candidates to fix > > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Annoying_little_bugs > > during the interview process. Then new hires could spend their first > weeks with a 50% time allocation to deliver one of > > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Mentorship_programs/Possible_projects > > as a way to familiarize themselves with our tools, ways of working, and > community. > > If a GSoC or OPW participant can do this (we require microtasks to all > candidates before being selected), a new full-time hire should be able to. > > The obviois side benefit is that our communty task queues would move > faster, indirectly promoting new featured bugs and projects. > This is somewhat related to an idea I like a lot: trial weeks.[1] You get to know someone, have them work on annoying little bugs or small features that could be completed in a week. You get a much better sense of what it's like to work with someone than in an interview or via a test. I was actually hired at Wikimedia via a trial week, by Zack Exley in ye olde Community Department. 1. http://www.sequoiacap.com/grove/posts/akzj/trial-week-our-hiring-secret -- Steven Walling, Product Manager https://wikimediafoundation.org/
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