A colleague emailed me this question today: “I’m looking for Agile and extreme programming jobs, and I keep seeing stuff like this. Are there really people searching for jobs described as having extreme workloads?” Here’s what he saw: “incumbent regularly works under deadlines and is capable of handling extreme workloads” Ok, I have several reactions […]
I love hearing good things about my book. I heard two great things last week. First, the book was reviewed by the ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) in the Software Engineering Notes Volume 31, Issue 2. Here’s the review. You need to be a member of ACM/SIGSOFT or have access to the digital library to
If you read this blog via an aggregator, you may not notice the changes. But I have succesfully updated my blogroll and made all the monthly archive pages appear. If you think I’ve missed your blog in the blogroll, please send me an email. Until I update the whole site, I’m done with blog housekeeping
I’ve been traveling virtually all of March. (You can probably tell, eh?) I’m leaving Albuquerque today and spoke with some folks from Chili’s, the restaurant chain.They’re opening a new restaurant in this area, and are hiring over 100 people. I asked about turnover and they said that yes, they do have a fair amount of
I just read Lee Copeland’s review on Stickyminds. If you don’t read Stickyminds regularly, consider it. I’m a regular columnist for Stickyminds and have written columns about hiring in the last couple of years.
If you read this blog via a newsreader instead of a browser, you may not notice I’ve been slowly making changes. I have finally figured out how to have Blogger automatically generate the archive links in reverse chronological order on the left (when you look at the page in a browser). Unfortunately, I must have
Larry Summers has been ousted as the President of Harvard. (I’m based in the Boston/Cambridge area, so you can imagine the news coverage here.) If you look at the facts, it’s clear to me, he was canned because he didn’t fit the culture of the institution. (See the USA Today editorial and the Time article.)I
I just posted Hiring For Team Fit. Please post comments here.
Woo-woo! Roy‘s interview with me, “Hiring Techies and Nerds” is O’Reilly’s Pick of the Week. Way cool.
Tester extraordinaire Mike Kelly pointed me to Interviewing the Interviewer: Beyond Getting the Job. If you’re a candidate, you should read this. Dave lists a bunch of questions that help a candidate see the culture of the organization. And yes, I’ll take this as another ding to post my cultural fit article.