We use a two tiered system to evaluate candidates.
We believe in challenge-based methods of both learning new skills and evaluating the skills of others.
We understand that many highly qualified applicants dread feeling like their interview in an audition, or being put on the spot an so they end up not even applying. That’s why we accept results from a self-guided challenge environments, like Exercism, as proof of skill.
An applicant can decline to do a live interview and instead choose to show us their completed challenges on Exercism and talk us through what choices they made.
A lot of people could be a great fit, despite not performing well on challenges. We should make time for them too!
But it is important to know what we are looking for and what we are not looking for in our team members.
Working together should feel like hanging out and solving a puzzle together. At some times it will be higher stakes, and it may be best to have silence and a shared view of a screen that we’re having a conversation about.
But sometimes that just means being “alone together”—listening to ambient music while you work on separate tracks and stopping each other occasionally for a second opinion.
Either way, pairing creates accountability.
Folie à deux ('folly of two', or 'madness [shared] by two'), also known as shared psychosis or shared delusional disorder (SDD), is a psychiatric syndrome in which symptoms of a delusional belief, and sometimes hallucinations, are transmitted from one individual to another.
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I got this result when I did a google search for “reality is a shared delusion,” which I’m sure Decartes some great philosopher said. Simone de Beauvoir assert that existence only has meaning in relation to a matrix of other meaning. Meaning is always relative, never absolute. In fact, as people, all of life is a shared delusion. Some thing only makes the cut as “reality” because everyone seems to agree to it.
Of course, there are exceptions to this rule. Delusional people are evaluated by us who “share” reality, to be crazy.
But what if more than one person shared that reality?
What if, in fact, an entire group of people shared a reality that, from your perspective, was delusional.