Craftsmanship Interviews

Commercial software development is all about the difference between tinkering and shipping. In our industry, it doesn’t matter how brilliant and elegant your code is if it never ships.

Get the candidates talking about what they’ve actually done, not how things should be done. Although you can learn about development best practices in school or from books, you don’t truly know them until you’ve been through the process.

We try to look at two broad areas of commercial engineering savvy:

• Process and Schedule
• Team-Sized Projects

As before, the details on the next few pages are meant as guidelines and starting points for discussion, not as checklists for what you should ask if this is your interview area.

Next: Process and Schedule