[thelist] How to interview techie programmers if you're a non-techie

[Joshua Olson]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ed McCarroll" <Ed at ComSimplicity.com>
Sent: Monday, September 23, 2002 4:41 PM


> I once attended a lecture that was so poorly presented that the professor
> apologize at the end for wasting everybody's time.  While he never won
> the Nobel Prize, he was a bona fide rocket scientist.  (And my
intellectual
> development has yet to recover.)

I'm very sorry to hear that.  Did anybody have the nerve to ask him to speak
in simpler terms?

As an aside to EVERYBODY, if you have not read the article suggested
earlier, I would definitely suggest it.  The URL is:

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000073.html

I have to concur with AJ--it's a very good article.

-joshua