Timeline for Is it a bad idea to ask an interviewer what the greatest strength and weakness of their development team is?
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| Sep 13, 2012 at 12:09 | comment | added | Joris Timmermans | @Farmor - I believe BЈовић simply doesn't understand the actual problem you have with his answer. As I read it, what you seem to try to say is that a good "soft" question can tell you a lot about a position, company, interviewer or candidate, so it's good to have those in your arsenal as well as technical questions. | |
| Jan 31, 2012 at 7:37 | comment | added | BЈовић | @Farmor A team without rules is called cowboy coding. Off course that scrum teams set their rules (this sums up scum pretty much, and it is completely different from cowboy coding). Lacking an expertise is easy to fix : hire someone competent. There are more serious problems some teams are facing - but they have no knowledge how to improve. | |
| Jan 30, 2012 at 22:52 | comment | added | user36524 | I don't follow you. You write "Every team should set their rules" This is exactly my point as I write "a Scrum team should set up it's own rules". Don't you agree with this? Also sometimes you can know a weak point but don't fix it as the solutions is either unknown or to hard. For example a team can have the problem that it is to homogenous but having trouble getting the right competences. I feel my team lacks a really good JavaScript expert and that we are all back end experts. | |
| Jan 30, 2012 at 22:42 | comment | added | BЈовић | @Farmor What a BS comment. Every team should set their rules. Plus, if they knew their weakest point, wouldn't they fix it? | |
| Jan 30, 2012 at 18:05 | comment | added | user36524 | -1 Your answer implies that developers are coding monkeys. A lot of professional programing is about building a kick ass team. For example a Scrum team should set up it's own rules and thus understand team strengths and weakness. | |
| Jan 30, 2012 at 15:04 | history | answered | BЈовић | CC BY-SA 3.0 |