May 9, 2003

Interviewing visionary software candidates
Posted by pegasus@jpbutler.com">Jason Butler at 1:46 PM -

Johanna Rothman, in her excellent "Hiring Technical People" weblog, has some tips for interviewing software architects and designers.

How do you differentiate true designers and architects from other software developers? This may be the hardest question to answer, and the most necessary. A real designer or architect, someone who doesn't just hack a bunch of software together, is worth more to your company than you can pay him/her. A real designer or architect can translate the vision of what the product has to be into the here-and-now, no matter what development practices you use.

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