[TUHS] Interview question

[Larry McVoy]

On Mon, Jan 02, 2023 at 01:38:30PM -0700, arnold at skeeve.com wrote:
> Larry McVoy <lm at mcvoy.com> wrote:
> 
> > The /bin/sh stuff made me think of an interview question I had for engineers,
> > that a surprisingly few could pass:
> >
> > "Tell me about something you wrote that was entirely you, the docs, the
> > tests, the source, the installer, everything.  It doesn't have to be a
> > big thing, but it has to have been successfully used by at least 10
> > people who had no contact with you (other than to say thanks)."
> >
> > Most people fail this.  I think the people who pass might look 
> > positively on the v7 sh stuff.  But who knows?
> 
> How many people who failed this question did you hire anyway?

None that I kept.  Miss-hired some who didn't pass and let them go eventually.
Whether that question actually is that good of an indicator in general, I
couldn't say.  It was a pretty solid one for what we did.
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