Need to hire someone

[DimPrawn]

What sort of question would you ask?

Can you start tomorrow?
Are you happy with no notice period?
Is £100 a day okay?

[lilelvis2000]

I just asked someone question 1 in their phone Interview. I didn't bother with question 2.

I'm looking for some intelligent questions and a high level answer with extra points for namedropping a couple of GoF patterns. Is that too much to ask?

Crikey. I've been coding for 20+ years and I have no clue what GoF pattern names are...though I'm sure I've used them (without knowing that I've used them).

Surely this problem only eliminates the dunces as it's quite simple.

[DodgyAgent]

Can you start tomorrow?
Are you happy with no notice period?
Is £100 a day okay?

Less my margin of course

[Old Greg]

Less my margin of course

Calm down dear. Rate to client is £550 pd.

[d000hg]

Surely this problem only eliminates the dunces as it's quite simple.

You would be amazed what proportion of developers are dunces... certainly when I've hired people and I believe it's representative.

Coding Horror: Why Can't Programmers.. Program?

[minestrone]

Strategy pattern.

[DimPrawn]

Strategy pattern.

Knitting Patterns | King Cole Ltd

[mudskipper]

The trees aren't very big. Maybe 50-200 leaves.

Have you tried Baby-Bio?

[fullyautomatix]

Good answer. Although the input does in fact start life as XML, you need to make a round trip to another system via a Java API that you don't control in order to derive the output that corresponds to the input.



Quite possibly. Better that than hiring the wrong ones.

Unless you are a mega corp with a reputation, like Goog, Amazon etc I would just laugh at your face. What rate you paying? 1000 per day ? Suckers like you pay 200 per day and expect a highly trained architect to rock up and answer your "techie" question and work their arse off. Yeah and pigs can fly.

[doodab]

Unless you are a mega corp with a reputation, like Goog, Amazon etc I would just laugh at your face. What rate you paying? 1000 per day ? Suckers like you pay 200 per day and expect a highly trained architect to rock up and answer your "techie" question and work their arse off. Yeah and pigs can fly.

It's a fairly small co, rate would be ~ £500/day for the right person. Which wouldn't be you with an attitude like that. We need a competent programmer who knows java well and a few other common bits and bobs. TBH, most programmers aren't competent, it's like trying to hire a mechanic when most of them only do clutches and have never seen brakes.

Anyway, you're rather missing the point of the post, which is what's the best way to find someone? If you can give intelligent feedback on what sort of interview questions to ask rather than ranting like a spoiled dickwad who's just been told he can't recode the whole thing in python that would be helpful.