29th
Aaron Swartz:
“There are three questions you have when you’re hiring a programmer (or anyone, for that matter): Are they smart? Can they get stuff done? Can you work with them? Someone who’s smart but doesn’t get stuff done should be your friend, not your employee. You can talk your problems over with them while they procrastinate on their actual job. Someone who gets stuff done but isn’t smart is inefficient: non-smart people get stuff done by doing it the hard way and working with them is slow and frustrating. Someone you can’t work with, you can’t work with.”
What Aaron describes is not only good advice to hire programmers, but to anyone you would like to work with. I would also add that you have a good chance of finding smart and GTD candidates in the ones who are passionate at what they do and like to share it.
(via SuperAmit)
