danielandrews43

Our interview process is fairly quick: 1. 15 minute phone call 2. 30 minute coding challenge on zoom 3. Paid onsite

What we’re struggling with is many people are passing the first phone call and then completely flipping the coding challenge. Many of the applicants don’t know how to code. These are people with 5+ years of experience as a software engineer.

It's a frontend role, and we're only interviewing people with React experience (at the moment!). Basically, the goal is to pull data from a server and display it. Correct solutions are 25-30 lines of JSX.

How do you structure your interview process to maximize the time you’re spending talking to qualified applicants?

One of the most tedious parts of frontend dev for our team is making sure all text is extracted to query strings for translation. We use i18n, and it’s great, but a lot falls through the cracks.

Have you set something up for your org on every pull request that pulls out text?

We just got an email that Plaid is going to be killing its development environment and they will give us "credits to test in our development environment"

appears to be down for many websites see https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/

Has anyone else experienced google silently turning on Google Meet links being added to all Google Calendar events?

Since starting a company I have been exposed to a lot less of how modern day engineering organizations are run. E.g. learning about new tools, frameworks, and best practices.

Other than reading HN, what's the best way to keep up with new developments?

How often should we be releasing new products or features?

Is it better to release something buggy and broken vs something more basic but working?

I know this is vague, but I'm looking for more general heuristics I can apply rather than direct advice. Any resources or benchmarks here would be really helpful!

We are approaching our first employee's one year anniversary. We want to do something nice for him, but also set a fun precedent. What are good work anniversary ideas / gifts that mean well and show our appreciation?