Would you hire a hacker who hacked your website?
Depends on how they did it. Hiring for me is ATTITUDE more than anything. I have interviewed and hired quite a lot of people over the years (TAT was 180 people and Brisk is 10, and of course, there are a lot of people you end up not hiring). People can learn things, but they seldom change who they are.
I look for people who fulfill the following criteria (pretty much in prio order even if all are important):
1. I want to work with (pretty much the awful move The Internship's the layover test: Vince Vaughn Googles Himself - Speakeasy - WSJ) and of course the team wants to work with.
2. Get shit done (have a track record of doing things and the first weeks isn't afraid of getting hands dirty). I always ask people to show me concrete things they have done last three years.
3. Is competent - for example they could hack my webpage.
If possible I ask the person to hang with us, join us for lunches or a weekend, participate in a project, or something - just to see how they rank on these three.
So - if someone would hack my webpage (in a non malicious / defaming / business ruining way), but have bad attitude / low work morale / not be a team player / be lazy / etc - I would not hire him or her.
** UPDATE: I changed the end to say "him or her" after complaints about adding to gender issues in the world by saying "I would not hire her".
I look for people who fulfill the following criteria (pretty much in prio order even if all are important):
1. I want to work with (pretty much the awful move The Internship's the layover test: Vince Vaughn Googles Himself - Speakeasy - WSJ) and of course the team wants to work with.
2. Get shit done (have a track record of doing things and the first weeks isn't afraid of getting hands dirty). I always ask people to show me concrete things they have done last three years.
3. Is competent - for example they could hack my webpage.
If possible I ask the person to hang with us, join us for lunches or a weekend, participate in a project, or something - just to see how they rank on these three.
So - if someone would hack my webpage (in a non malicious / defaming / business ruining way), but have bad attitude / low work morale / not be a team player / be lazy / etc - I would not hire him or her.
** UPDATE: I changed the end to say "him or her" after complaints about adding to gender issues in the world by saying "I would not hire her".
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