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Dave Martin
Personal blog · davemart.inprogrammingcareer
Dave Martin's personal blog at davemart.in covers programming and career. Since 2015, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 18 times, most often “Inside Automattic's Remote Hiring Process”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-02, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Dave Martin's blog posts on hiring, including a piece urging readers to refuse coding interviews and one on Automattic's remote hiring process. HN commenters mostly discuss the coding-interview topic and cite the posts.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
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Most-linked posts?
- Inside Automattic's Remote Hiring Process3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2015-04-29
- Inside Automattic's remote hiring process2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-04-22
What Hacker News says?
While I fully agree with the author that coding interview questions are not great, I think something important to keep in mind is that "fixing" programming interviews it is an incredibly difficult problem to solve. I think the best way to gauge a candidates programming ability is to work on a small project with them, similar to Automattic's approach [1]. Unfortunately, this method is extremely expensive, to both the…
Comment linking /remote-hiring/
on “Why you should refuse to participate in coding interviews”Submitted The Resistance Is Real – Why Side Projects Are So Hard as a story · 489 points
HN discussionBlogspam for http://davemart.in/2015/04/22/inside-automattics-remote-hiri... , which was discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10834906
Comment linking /2015/04/22/inside-automattics-remote-hiring-process
on “The Startup That Never Meets the People It Hires”Submitted Inside Automattic's Remote Hiring Process as a story · 150 points
HN discussionSubmitted Inside Automattic's remote hiring process as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSubmitted Inside the remote hiring process of the team that brought us WordPress as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Create full length screenshots without an app as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Principles People Product Profit – Always in That Order as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Getting MongoDB to work with Laravel locally as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Enough as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Distributed Is Still the Future as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Highlights from Trillion Dollar Coach as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Everything I Wish I knew About Stock Options 15 Years Ago as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Negativity audits – the 5 min exercise that can change your life as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Happiness – In a single sentence as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Complete novice to full-time product designer in 1-2 years as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How painful is your app? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Inside Automattic's Remote Hiring Process as a story · 1 points
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