Sigh. I’m at the point where I could honestly care less what language/library someone knows. I’ve been working through a big pile/mess that a recently departed teammate has left me to clean up. I wish I had had more bandwidth to see what was going on.
What I wish I could figure how to reliably measure when we get around to hiring a replacement:
- do they care? They don’t have to agree with my opinions. We can hammer out a compromise with enough laughs. I just want them to care. Because there’s still a lot of things that even the best protocols, procedures, and practices can’t cover.
- can they be responsible? Or have they bought into the fantasy where they offload responsibility to a “decider” while they play the role exclusively of “doer”?
- can they and will they ask questions?? To customers, to teammates, in online forums, wherever. Or does their insecure ego prevent them from feeling the fool so that they can become the wiser?
-can they be critically honest? Admit what they don’t know when debugging, avoid conclusion jumping, candidly self asses? Or do they need some form of myopia to maintain a narrative about their abilities, their contribution, their value, or the environment around them?
If I could reliably convince myself that someone scored strong in these four areas, and had rudimentary programming aptitude we could just skip the rest of these “hiring/new employee” diatribes.
What I wish I could figure how to reliably measure when we get around to hiring a replacement:
- do they care? They don’t have to agree with my opinions. We can hammer out a compromise with enough laughs. I just want them to care. Because there’s still a lot of things that even the best protocols, procedures, and practices can’t cover.
- can they be responsible? Or have they bought into the fantasy where they offload responsibility to a “decider” while they play the role exclusively of “doer”?
- can they and will they ask questions?? To customers, to teammates, in online forums, wherever. Or does their insecure ego prevent them from feeling the fool so that they can become the wiser?
-can they be critically honest? Admit what they don’t know when debugging, avoid conclusion jumping, candidly self asses? Or do they need some form of myopia to maintain a narrative about their abilities, their contribution, their value, or the environment around them?
If I could reliably convince myself that someone scored strong in these four areas, and had rudimentary programming aptitude we could just skip the rest of these “hiring/new employee” diatribes.