Having a Good Conversation

Quantum Art of Hiring Awesome Developers

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1. Having a Good Conversation or “Quantum Art of Hiring Awesome Developers” 18.06.2018 by Alberts Bušinskis, Head of .NET Unit
2. Discussing things you both care about... Why do people have problems?
3. Most teams want to have awesome teammates
4. Choose your destiny…
5. Can someone else interview?...
6. They end up with...
7. Best Practices (like HHDD)
8. Scared 90% Not prepared 10% Developer Interview Common Mistakes Scared Not prepared
9. What’s your culture like?
11. What they are looking for • Working with professionals • Best industry practices • Proper tools and technologies • Becoming better professional • Watching own progress • No corborate bullshit • …
12. Corporate B.S. vs. Core Values • Mastery • Purpose • Authonomy
13. Homework The Software Craftsman Ch. 09 – Recruitment Ch. 10 – Interviewing Ch. 11 – Interview Anti-Patterns Ch. 12 – The Cost of Low Morale
15. DevTernity Conference
16. Tools
17. Junior • Delivering working solution • Learning/practicing a lot Regular • Solving problems • Code maintainability Senior • Building team, processes • Bringing business options and values
18. • Paper/online Quiz • Complicated algorithms • Deep about frameworks • SQL weird queries Better Not:
19. • How passionate he is • How active he is • What he cares about • What exactly he does • Tools, skills • Personal achievements • Team collaboration • Understanding architecture What he is/does everyday
20. To talk about: Language • Memory, types and variables • Nullreference • Dispose • Collections • DB queries • Exceptions • * Async • * Threading • * New features • * Comparison • …
21. Language specifics for (var i = 0; i < 10; i++) { setTimeout(function() { console.log(i); }, 0); }
22. Ecosystem
23. Object Oriented World
24. TDD, Refactoring
25. govnokod.ru public bool Success { get; set; } public bool Failure { get { return !Success; } set { Success = !value; } }
28. Code • http://codekata.com/ • http://leetcode.com • https://projecteuler.net/ • ...
29. bool IsPalindrome(string s) • Write a method that returns if given string is a palindrome
30. Most used word • In a text file, find the most often used word
31. Bitcoin profit count • Given array of 10000 bitcoin’s today prices and times • Find the highest possible profit, after 1 buy and 1 sell
32. Simple system design • Create simple URL shortener service (ej.uz) • Simple game backend • Simple API
33. HAPPY CUSTOMER PASSIONATE TEAM AGILE + XP process Fast feedback loop COMPANY EARNS MONEY Responding to change Refactoring PRODUCTIVE PARTNERSHIP Interactions over individuals Culture of learning Purpose, Master, Authonomy Code Reviews Test Driven Development Pair Programming Continuous improvement Cross-Skilled Team Share the Same Values $$$ Capabilities Focus on the Same Goals Continuous improvement Freedom + Responsibility Continuous Delivery Sustainable pace Continuous Integration Simple Architecture No overwork Less stress More Fun! Personal Commitment Professionalism, Pragmatism, Pride Software should be invisible Steadily adding business value
34. HAPPY CUSTOMER Fast feedback loop COMPANY EARNS MONEY Responding to change PRODUCTIVE PARTNERSHIP Software should be invisible Steadily adding business value
35. PASSIONATE TEAM Interactions over individuals Culture of learning Purpose, Master, Authonomy Cross-Skilled Team Share the Same Values Focus on the Same Goals Freedom + Responsibility No overwork Less stress More Fun! Personal Commitment Professionalism, Pragmatism, Pride
36. AGILE + XP process Refactoring Code Reviews Test Driven Development Pair Programming Continuous Delivery Sustainable pace Continuous Integration Simple Architecture
37. HAPPY CUSTOMER PASSIONATE TEAM AGILE + XP process Fast feedback loop COMPANY EARNS MONEY Responding to change Refactoring PRODUCTIVE PARTNERSHIP Interactions over individuals Culture of learning Purpose, Master, Authonomy Code Reviews Test Driven Development Pair Programming Continuous improvement Cross-Skilled Team Share the Same Values $$$ Capabilities Focus on the Same Goals Continuous improvement Freedom + Responsibility Continuous Delivery Sustainable pace Continuous Integration Simple Architecture No overwork Less stress More Fun! Personal Commitment Professionalism, Pragmatism, Pride Software should be invisible Steadily adding business value
38. Superpowers • Telling truth? • Excited? • Any risks?
39. Maskavas iela 240-3, Rīga, Latvija, LV-1063 T: +371 67162003 | F: +371 67930231 info@astonbaltic.com | www.astonbaltic.com References • Software Craftmanship (Sandro Mancuso) • Clean Code (Robert Martin) • Testing / TDD • Pluralsight • The Art of Unit Testing (Roy Osherove) • http://codekata.com • http://leetcode.com • http://govnokod.ru
40. Thanks! We’re Hiring Awesome .NET Developers ;-)