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If you, too, want to hire the world’s best top tech talent, try one of these secret hiring strategies. Also known as 10 more reasons I never want to interview again
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WTAF?
So - you work for a company whose only actual asset is the ingenuity of their workforce and you artificially restrict that by having pointless hurdles put in the way of potential recruits? My gast is flabbered!
Here are some alternative strategies:-
1) Be able to give a go/no-go decision during the interview. If you can't officially make the offer why are you talking to the candidate. Good talent can't wait for your process - so fix the process.
2) Meet them where they are. Go to tech meet ups or the like and be able to do quick interviews on spec there. If you don't want to hire the type of person who has an excess of free time (you don't) then don't waste their time to fit your needs.
3) Don't hide anything - show them the team, the machines, the office, the parking etc. Whatever you hide is automatically assumed to be a disaster so if that isn't the case, don't hide it.
(I apologise for the rant but this is unquestionably the most nonsensical garbage I have read in my considerable span as a sentient being. If you ever hear of any company following any of those 10 tips you should short their stock. - Standard Wednesday caveat: wine has been consumed..)
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Oh, I expected it to say "don't".
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That has got to be the greatest heap of bullshit I have read in a long time. Offer the job 3 months after the interview, if the person is any good they will have moved on long before that.
If you performed an interview to these specs I would expect the interviewer to be sacked for incompetence. Anyone of high worth would not put up with that sort of crap, possibly a recent graduate may but not a skilled and competent developer.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Oh right and NOW they point out it is satire 
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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The problem with these mind games, at least in my interviews at Amazon, is that its obvious what they are doing and seems forced. I was smiling at him and saying "oh you got me!" then went back to the airport and clicked WITHDRAW.
Biggest waste of 1 day.
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Are people overlooking:
"Sarah Cooper is a writer, comedian..."
Although some interviews may be like this....
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I don't know which was funnier, reading the article or the comments on here about the article.
It was obviously satirical and was not intended to be taken seriously 
"There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult." - C.A.R. Hoare
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I still don't want to interview ever again...
(The "LOLZ" category was a pretty good clue too)
TTFN - Kent
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I've had a look at some other articles on Quartz...I'm not sure any of them should be taken seriously. It has the feel of a robo-journalism site?
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To reinforce that this was intended to be satirical, one only need look at the author's 'credential' at the bottom of the article:
"Sarah Cooper is a writer, comedian and creator of TheCooperReview.com. Her first book, 100 Tricks to Appear Smart in Meetings comes out October 4th. Sign up for her free email to get updates. We welcome your comments at ideas@qz.com."
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Sadly, some interviewers behave as described in that satirical article.
Fortunately, I am not forced to work for them.
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Copying and pasting code from the internet is one of the biggest open secrets in computer programming. Needs codez plz
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Quote: So the lesson here? Never, ever copy and paste code from the internet you don't understand. I repeat: never copy and paste code from the internet you don't understand.
Should read... Never, ever copy and paste code you don't understand. I repeat: never copy and paste that you don't understand.
Who cares what the source of the code is. you should be curious enough to learn what that code actually does.
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At least, change the variable and function names to something synonymous.
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I usually include the URL to any code I have used from the internet, including SO, CP, MSDN and any other resource where I snaffle code from. I only change the variables if the original don't make sense in the context.
The included URL gives the support guys some context and it is doco that I don't have to write.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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I've done the same on numerous occasions. 
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I think the complaint/laugh was less about the source being copied, and more about displaying the comment about SO on the actual app screen. For me, anyway.
TTFN - Kent
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Broken link? I get a 404 page.
Cheers,
Peter
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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The stackoverflow question[^] says the article was taken down. I tried the internet archive[^]; but it's currently erroring out. Hopefully the latter will come back online soon. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Archive.org only caught it after the article was yanked. OTOH the SO answer history linked to a Tweet[^] with the full fail included.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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