Re: [tlug] Job Posting

["Ian Barwick" <barwick@example.com>]

2009/1/12 Curt Sampson <cjs@example.com>:
> the response I'm hoping to elicit from potential employees is summarized
> in the following matrix:
>
>                            | Programming Skills
>                            | --------------------
>                            |   Bad      Good
>    ------------------------+---------------------
>    Frightened  of Starling |   Yes       No
>
> So thoughts? Is this going to frighten away the good guys, too,
> particularly inexperienced but smart people? Are the sample programs we
> ask for too hard? Too easy? The wrong sort of problem? (This particular
> sort of request for sample programs is something I've not tried before.)

Personally I'm not particularly looking for another job right now, but
the two languages specified for the sample applications are on my
"really should look into this one of these days" list and if it wasn't
quite so late (or more pertinently I didn't have Stuff To Do early
tomorrow) I'd be having a crack at one of them just for the hell of
it.

> What about the process in general; is this something that job-seekers
> would, or at least should, feel comfortable with?

Mark me down as "scared witless" ;). Though in all seriousness the
message that comes across is that you know what kind of people you're
looking for; I went through a similar if not quite as extensive
process for my current position, so it seems to be in the right ball
park.


Ian Barwick