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It's better to be a T shaped developer. This helps you become a better team player too. If you have a good understanding of the process involved in front-end, back-end, product, design etc, you can practice empathy better when working with other people. You get to learn a lot from different languages, frameworks, philosophies etc that you can use in your work. If you wanna start something on your own at one point of your life, you can do it by yourself
No, they don't. You can't make sure if a person can solve the problems they're supposed to and if they'll fit in to your team with such practices. Have conversations not interviews Interviews I do now are more like having a conversation with the person. I mostly want to know what they are doing right now. How much do they understand about it etc. Then we'll move on to understanding what they understand about technologies they use and their opinions about that. Later I'll introduce some problems that we solved in the product I'm working on currently and get their thoughts on how they'd have approached it and how they'd have solved it. By this point I'd have a fair idea if they're a good fit for the team. Later I'll enquire about their aspirations and ambitions and talk about our team and company. Now the process explained above takes about 90 minutes for me. So it's better to do it with really promising candidates. Here's a process I was following in my previous company. Application stage - Everybody applying for the job are supposed to fill up a form. It has some simple questions to evaluate what the candidate is doing right now. It is interesting to note that we filtered out 90% of candidates in this round Phone interview - We'll do a 5 minute call with the candidate to tell them that they are in the process and what are the next steps. Coding challenge - We send a problem to the candidate and they should give us a working solution in 1 weeks time. This helps us understand how hands-on the candidate is, If they write clean code etc Pairing round - We invite the candidate to our office and gives them a problem to solve. We'll pair with them while they're solving the problem and have conversations as I explained earlier. Following such a process helped us concentrate our time and efforts on right candidates
I worked on a dating app once I laughed for 10 minutes when our product manager explained its business logic to me. Target audience of that app was orthodox Christians. You can only have heterogeneous relationship with it. Also it only allows one connection at a time. Now the cool part is that there is an admin who precedes over everything in this app. Each time a couple gets connected, this admin watches it. This was the funniest thing for me. Think about another person looking in to what you’re doing in a dating app The couple is given a set of prayers. After the prayers, parties involved are supposed to write down their dreams. Admin will read all these. Now at the end, if you feel you’re compatible with your partner and decide to take it to the next level, admin should approve of this relationship based on everything admin has seen. I was awestruck to learn that such a business could exist and there will be people who’ll pay 100$ for signing up on it
I’m working on a project to help beginners get started on contributing open source projects. https://github.com/Roshanjossey/first-contributions/ It’d be awesome if you could check it out and gimme feedback
The key is to reach to the right people. Share it where your target audience hangs out I’m working on a project to help beginners get started on contributing open source projects. https://github.com/Roshanjossey/first-contributions/ I was trying to reach beginners to open source. I soon learned that hackernews and reddit were not the right places for it. I started posting it in blog posts and articles related to the same subject Later some awesome people in the community found it and shared it on twitter and medium. I got a lot of traffic by adding it to hacktoberfest this year
Juho Vepsäläinen So true. I’m working on a project to help beginners get started on contributing open source projects. https://github.com/Roshanjossey/first-contributions/ I've always felt like Brandon Morelli and Kent C. Dodds helped a lot in getting it to people who really needed it.