On: Engineering management at Facebook

[aristus]

That is a very good point, but what alternative do you suggest? Keep in mind that hiring can consume a lot of existing employee time.

[silverlake → aristus]

Strongly encourage applicants to contribute to any open source project. Reviewing this code will tell you more than any stupid programming question. This takes less time and can be done asychronously. An interview can be used to determine if the qualified applicant will fit in your culture.

And if they haven't contributed any open source code, then whack them with stupid programming questions.

[tgflynn → aristus]

I posted this comment on the subject a while ago that describes the process I would use:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1966689

The responses were interesting, ranging from "that would never work" to "that's what we do and it works great".