Sep
22
“The best way to hire talent is to drop them in actual work situations for at least a week and see what happens. And that’s the catch. Since most shops don’t pair all the time, they don’t have a built-in infrastructure to accommodate just “dropping someone into a real work situation”. The poor candidate would be in over their head. Our candidates spend their interview week rotating on actual production code, pairing with the same people they’ll be working with if they’re hired. Everyone gets a say in whether to hire a new recruit, and hesitance from a developer that actually paired with them means they do not get hired.”
Obie Fernandez: 10 Reasons Pair Programming Is Not For the Masses
