On Oct 15, 2004, at 8:22 AM, Win Wiencke wrote:

> Everyone should have examples of their work to show style and 
> thoroughness.

That's interesting.  I don't think "we" have ever asked to see prior
work when interviewing a candidate.  Of course, it's nice if they can
say "I wrote xyz's implementation of abc" and you're familiar with the
product and it's reputation.  We put candidates through full days worth
of interviews with half-a-dozen interviewers, and grill them pretty
thoroughly on technical background.  But looking at actual code? Hmm.
In some sense, any code small enough for the interviewer to understand
isn't enough to get an idea of the overall quality.  We don't hire 
people
based on programming STYLE; we give them a style manual when they arrive
and say "this is the way you should do it HERE."  They're supposed to be
good enough to be able to deal with that...

Of course, this provides an interesting reason to contribute to the
open source movement.  Or on forums like piclist...

BillW

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