Improving Podcasts

In this episode, Allen Hurst and Mike Abney are joined by Mike Doberenz, Mike Deck, and John Woodward to discuss interviewing, being interviewed, and what makes a good candidate.

Topics Covered:

• How important is programming ability?
• Discerning problem solving aptitude.
• How we do interviews.
• A few example interview problems.
• A few interview stories.
• What are the most important things you look for?
• A few stories about being interviewed.
• What are we trying to get out of the interview?

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This is our one-year episode! In this podcast Allen is joined by Ed Grannan and Gary McCants to discuss the one year anniversary of Improving Podcasts. The team covers their favorite episodes from the past year and gives some new and different perspectives on those topics.

• Reflection on Episode 3 – Throw Away Your Unit Tests
• Confidence vs. faith
• More on acceptance testing
• Test maintenance
• Reflection on Episode 13 – Agile Games
• Our favorite games and how we use them to teach
• Visit TastyCupcakes.com
• Different perspectives on Navel Gazing and Agile Team Rooms episodes
• Experts help: Todd Girvin and Chris Tullier
• Reflection on Episode 19 – Bringing Order to Chaos
• Reflection on Episode 5 – Improving Presentations
• The benefit of quality contributors
• Summary of our recent episode on Spartan Programming

If you’re a Podcast Alley user, you can now access Improving Podcasts via Podcast Alley. My Podcast Alley feed! {pca-50ba3d816c449afe7f11695981e61522}

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