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Interviewing is a noisy prediction problem

Erik Bernhardsson

So we can choose to spend one hour on system design, one hour on algorithms, etc. System design. Highhouse (2008) finds that interviewers perceive of unstructured interviews as the most predictive, and intelligence tests as the least predictive, although the estimated actual effectiveness is actually the opposite.

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Interviewing is a noisy prediction problem

Erik Bernhardsson

So we can choose to spend one hour on system design, one hour on algorithms, etc. System design. Highhouse (2008) finds that interviewers perceive of unstructured interviews as the most predictive, and intelligence tests as the least predictive, although the estimated actual effectiveness is actually the opposite.

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Grown-Up Lean

LeanEssays

I then make a sustained argument from the Linux experience for the proposition that “Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow”, suggest productive analogies with other self-correcting systems of selfish agents, and conclude with some exploration of the implications of this insight for the future of software. But I tip my hat to them.

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Where Programming, Ops, AI, and the Cloud are Headed in 2021

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

in 2008 and continuing with Java 8 in 2014, programming languages have added higher-order functions (lambdas) and other “functional” features. There’s been a lot of discussion about operations culture (the movement frequently known as DevOps), continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD), and site reliability engineering (SRE).

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Lean Software Development: The Backstory

LeanEssays

Charter a team of responsible experts led by an entrepreneurial system designer. Because of this intense industry-wide knowledge sharing, methods and tools for building highly reliable complex software systems have advanced extraordinarily quickly and are widely available. But it paid for itself many times over.