At @readme, we do technical interviews very differently. We ask everyone to bring their own project to work on.
It could be a new feature for a side project, starting something new, or contributing to open source.
🧵 Here’s a thread on how it works and why we do it! ⬇️
Rather than asking candidates to solve a new problem, I get so much more out of watching them work in their own environment. They're solving a problem they care about in a codebase they know, which mimics how working with them will be a few months in.
Oct 2, 2020 • 15 tweets • 6 min read
I've recently been doing a bunch of live conference talks via Zoom, and thought it would be fun to go all-out on hacking together a teleprompter that…
🕹 controls the slides,
📽 camera angles,
🚀 demos
🚦 and lights
📝 all via Dropbox Paper
Here’s how I built it ⬇️🧵⬇️
I missed out on a trip to 🇦🇺 Australia due to COVID… but at least I don’t have to memorize my talk now!
Teleprompters are just tilted glass, with an iPad below it. The glass reflects the iPad, but the camera can still record clearly through it. I bought mine on Amazon for $164.
