Psychotomy

So, The other day I was asked to sit in on some interviews that my boss was doing. No problem. My boss and the lead programmer were going to be there, I’m just there to provide a third viewpoint.

Oh, and they’re inviting the other two programmers on the team (including the one who changed teams recently). So they want the other devs to chime in.

Oh, the lead programmer is bowing out of the first interview b/c he knows the guy. OK, sure.

Wait, the boss is backing out too? wtf?

Three of us, who have never done an interview without being the candidate, alone with this guy on up to two hours notice. I had two hours notice that they wanted me to sit in. We had ~20 minutes notice that “sit in” was code for “do it without us”. We were woefully unprepared.

So we told him stories of how things work in federal contracting. We regaled him with horror stories of cutting edge HTML 3.0 techniques in use. And basically we did a piss poor “interview” because, lets face it, we’re coders not interviewers.

The second interview, the other two devs had work to do, but he lead came to this one. it was more enlightening, since he had some idea wtf he was doing in an interview :o

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