The Stuff They Don't Teach You in School

Our industry is full of micro-geniuses. I once hired a kid that failed out of Purdue University’s Computer Science program as my head network engineer. Not sure why he failed out, and I still don’t particularly care. I hired him because he was an absolute genius, and he made it through the gauntlet of tests [...]

What does your hiring process look like? Have you hired your best friend’s dog walker’s sister’s buddy to do some work for you because they needed work? Did you very quickly figure out why that guy had no job? What about family? Who among you has hired your brother-in-law? Didn’t turn out so great did [...]