Tag: interviewing
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Five Books: Books Reviews Through Expert Interviews
Five Books has been a favourite reading discovery site of mine for a few years. Twice a week, an expert in a given field is asked to select five books on a related topic, and then explains that selection in an often-enlightening short interview. I’ve never failed to come away from an interview with some…
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On Hiring Talent (Not Just Programmers)
You could hire through open source like GitHub (“we hire ‘The Girl or Guy Who Wrote X,’ where X is an awesome project we all use or admire”) or use a check-list to recognise competency (passion, self-teaching, a love of learning, intelligence, hidden experience and knowledge of a variety of technologies) and no doubt find…
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Conversations with Charlie Rose
The archives of Charlie Rose are available on the official website and this past weekend I watched these excellent conversations: An excellent talk on technology and innovation with Marc Andreessen, a man with impressive Valley credentials: co-founder of Ning, co-author of Mosaic, founder of Netscape, investor in Digg and Twitter, and board member of Facebook…