[Web4lib] Offtopic: Interviewing and Hiring a Web Developer

[Mike Kmiec]

This may be a little more technical that what you need, but there are some good recommendations here:

http://joelonsoftware.com/articles/GuerrillaInterviewing3.html 

One thing I like to do is to try and find out how a potential hire thinks with a question like "How would you go about determining the number of traffic lights in the city?" A question like this - without a right answer, really - allows you to get an idea of how they go about problem-solving. Some may try to figure out the number of streets that intersect; some may estimate the volume of traffic and base the answer on that; some may try and get more information out of you - Do you want *all* traffic lights, or can I exclude the flashing yellow ones?

Of course, these days I often add on "...and you're not allowed to use Google," but that's just me.





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Mike Kmiec
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>>> "Jay Roos" <jayroos at gmail.com> 29/06/2007 2:00 am >>>
We are about to open a position for a web developer. However, we have never
had a programmer on staff before and have never been through the process of
hiring anyone with such skills. I do some PHP, but don't feel qualified to
say just what quality PHP is or isn't. Would anyone be willing to share your
screening process, interview questions and applicant testing with me?

-- 
Jay Roos
Computer & Information Systems Coordinator
Great River Regional Library
405 W. St. Germain
St. Cloud, MN 56301
(320) 650-2534
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