How to Freaking Find Great Developers By Having Them Read Code

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How to Freaking Find Great Developers By Having Them Read Code.
When hiring developers, there are many things we are looking for, but over the years I have found that raw coding ability is easily the most important quality to look for. I can quickly…

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Being able to read and understand (and probably modify it in the future) an existing code base is probably more important than writing one from scratch.

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What, test them on what they’ll actually spend most of their time doing? That’s just crazy talk! Obviously the most important thing to assess is whiteboard scrawl legibility!

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