> So you want my experience writing FORTRAN for mainframes in the 90s? My experience with C which I haven’t touched in a decade? VB6? Perl?
Yes, if only to confirm veracity. The mantra is "Trust but Verify".
The point of bringing up the Amazon example was to show a specific technique which works and has been adopted/validated by others. Amazon is a giant company and you were just one small cog in the wheel so pointing to your Amazon experience is not very convincing. This was not something imposed on every trivial meeting but for important strategic ones. There is good logic behind such a practice viz. helps to get the entire team on the same page w.r.t. some subject. Finally, i did not say that Amazon did the above for recruitment but suggested that recruiting in general would be far better if they (and everybody else) adopted such a logic.
> So you want my experience writing FORTRAN for mainframes in the 90s? My experience with C which I haven’t touched in a decade? VB6? Perl?
Yes, if only to confirm veracity. The mantra is "Trust but Verify".
The point of bringing up the Amazon example was to show a specific technique which works and has been adopted/validated by others. Amazon is a giant company and you were just one small cog in the wheel so pointing to your Amazon experience is not very convincing. This was not something imposed on every trivial meeting but for important strategic ones. There is good logic behind such a practice viz. helps to get the entire team on the same page w.r.t. some subject. Finally, i did not say that Amazon did the above for recruitment but suggested that recruiting in general would be far better if they (and everybody else) adopted such a logic.