{"id":8426,"date":"2005-01-06T01:19:50","date_gmt":"2005-01-05T23:19:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2005\/01\/06\/puppeteer-philosophy-of-hiring\/"},"modified":"2005-04-10T01:30:15","modified_gmt":"2005-04-09T22:30:15","slug":"puppeteer-philosophy-of-hiring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2005\/01\/06\/puppeteer-philosophy-of-hiring\/","title":{"rendered":"puppeteer philosophy of hiring"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

As seen on Slashdot<\/a> in this comment<\/a>:<\/p>\n

If you’re in the position to hire personnel and are looking to staff a position… take your stack of applications and divide them in half at random. Take one stack and throw it into the trash.Avoid hiring unlucky people.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n

As seen on Slashdot in this comment: If you’re in the position to hire personnel and are looking to staff a position… take your stack of applications and divide them in half at random. Take one stack and throw it into the trash.Avoid hiring unlucky people.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2418],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-8426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-humor"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11316,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2008\/07\/24\/vacancy-for-python-or-c-programmers-and-linux-sysadmins\/","url_meta":{"origin":8426,"position":0},"title":"Vacancy for Python or C++ programmers and Linux sysadmins","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"July 24, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Point Nine is looking for some talanted people.\u00a0 They are working in the financial sector, and seeking Python and C++ programmers, as well as Linux system administrators.\u00a0 They seem to be an interesting company, judging both by their technology stack and hiring techniques.\u00a0\u00a0 For example, I've spotted their job ad\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "All"","block_context":{"text":"All","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/category\/general\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":9050,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2005\/06\/06\/on-hiring-programmers\/","url_meta":{"origin":8426,"position":1},"title":"On hiring programmers","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"June 6, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"Ovid, who is a rather famous Perl programmer himself, has a few tips about hiring programmers for companies who want to do so. 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