How Puppet Labs uses written exercises and short coding challenges to filter candidates before phone screens and reduce screening time
4 min read
2012
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Hiring Challenges -
How we use IRC at Puppet Labs Why the Puppet Labs ops team picked IRC for team chat and how a Cinch-based bot called Lampwick handles tickets, alerts, and assorted memes
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Please take an Arts degree Why so many Arts graduates wind up in IT and how consuming, assimilating, and synthesising information makes us well suited to it
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Knives Why I gave in and started carrying a folding clasp knife after moving to Portland and meeting American consumer packaging up close
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Best and Worst Hacker Movies Ever A run through Hackers, Swordfish, Firewall, WarGames, Sneakers, AntiTrust, and The Net with notes on what each gets right and wrong
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Puppet and Flowdock Releasing a Puppet report processor that pushes notifications of failed runs to a Flowdock team collaboration room via the Flowdock gem
1 min read
2011
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James & Nigel A short post sharing an animated graphic a colleague made of me alongside Nigel from the Spinal Tap movie
1 min read