shortrounddev @ shortrounddev @lemmy.world

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Eloquent in your brevity

Maybe not scifi, but I don't think it's unreasonable to want to hire people who read.

It's literally sherlock holmes but as a doctor. They even included the opiate addiction

I feel that if we only hire purely based on technical ability, we are creating dysfunctional and unempathetic workplaces. If we all see our jobs inherently transactionally, it breeds discontent. Employees are less likely to stay more than a couple years and institutional knowledge becomes weak with a constantly rotating roster of hot-swappable engineers. Obviously, this requires the employer to treat the employees well; if someone is a good performer then they should get more than a cost of living adjustment every other year. We are creating economic engines and not cultures worth spending 8 hours a day in

the theory of communism doesn’t require human rights violations and restrictions of freedoms

Communism is a political ideology predicated on murdering a group of political enemies in the name of a pseudoscientific economic theory which is given the same reverence that Catholics do to church dogma. Communism is, and always has been, a cult.

Whats wrong with SAO

What? How is software transphobic

No

It's not 100% about getting the best developer, it's about team culture

I think it's better to get an intuitive/human understanding of an applicant rather than making them take an SAT of Javascript questions. Above all, I value flexibility and the ability to learn new things. A lot of the people I don't want to work with kind of just learned react at a bootcamp and that's all they know how to do

Do you have a strong preference for Marvel over D.C. or did you you lie lol

Here's a twist to the question: what if the company created artistic products? For example, a game development studio? Would the fiction you read/watch/etc be more relevant to the job? Even for software engineers

I think your answer would be perfect, but it begs the question: should employers try to hire people who read long form text recreationally (i.e: books)? Does it correlate to better written communication skills? I think I owe my ability to communicate asynchronously at work to the years I spent on web forums online

I doubt it's explicitly illegal, but who knows what you can be accused of

If you asked me my favorite sci fi and I said it was the Black Science comics, or Atomic Robo, is that a yes or a no?

It's a yes, I'm not particular about the format/medium. Same with my other interview questions, the answers don't matter so much as the fact that you CAN answer the question

how are these yuppies sneaking through your screening at all? It’s not evident in the interview?

It's not exactly a criteria for the interview. Plus I'm not the only one interviewing. yuppies attract yuppies

That's not exactly what I want to select for though. I guess leaving it open ended lets them convince me of the culture fit rather than just trying to check a box. Maybe they don't give a shit about science fiction, but they're really into science or art. That's cool, too

I think we already live in a monoculture in the tech industry. I think having some kind of cultural similarity is important for organizational cohesion. I think empathy helps

Haha I'm afraid every time I interview someone. I know that I personally hate being asked whiteboard algorithm questions, and I don't think they're very useful either. When I interview people I ask them two main questions:

1. What is your hottest take on coding? It can be controversial or not, it just has to be a strongly held opinion. For example, if you despise Windows, tell me why. If you are a zealot for Vim/Emacs, rant at me. If you think that dynamically typed languages are the worst thing ever, prove it.

I don't actually care about what their opinion is (though I think it's good to hire people with a lot of intellectual diversity), I just want to see if they can extemporaneously rant about coding for 10-15mins

2. What is a technology (an API, a cloud service, a programming language, a new kind of algorithm, etc.) that you are excited about and that you want to be able to use at work some day

Again, the actual tech doesn't matter too much to me, but this indicates that they read up on the latest goings-ons of the industry they're in. I also think that it's a good character trait to be someone who desperately searches for problems to apply a novel solution to. I don't think it's always a good idea to ACTUALLY create a solution looking for a problem, but I think it's a good intellectual trait to have

Yeah but at the same time I feel like it's kind of privileged to be able to work in tech because you love coding. I mean everybody should work in jobs they love but I've met a huge number of people who were making slave wages in other fields and moved to coding to make more money. Why should I punish that? Because I find their water cooler conversations to be boring? What if they're the first person in their family to graduate college and they're just trying to feed their family and are actually really good at coding, but their real passion in life is Football? I want to work in a workplace with people I would want to actually hang out with, but it seems petty to penalize people for not liking the same things as me and not having the advantage of a great salary to be able to turn their real passion into a career

I think a large reason why many game devs don't dev on linux is tooling support, not the speed of the runtime. idk if Unity and Unreal editors run on Linux but they do make it simpler to target linux or mac. Ancedotally, however, most Unity devs I see are either on Windows or Macbooks, not Linux.

Personally I'm a fan of DirectX and all the tools that come with it. Vulkan is a comparable API (though more verbose than DX11) and the tooling support for it is very 3rd party. I could switch to Linux for literally anything other than game dev because I'm just too into DirectX right now