O/T : Looking for an entry level LAMP developer for contract work.

[Jerry Snitselaar]

On Wed Jul 29 15, Steve Litt wrote:
> On Tue, 28 Jul 2015 20:30:31 -0700
> Sesso <sesso at djsesso.com> wrote:
> 
> > "Companies should focus a little less on buzzwords, and a lot more
> > on someone's ability/desire to learn, ability to think critically,
> > and ablility to solve problems.”
> > 
> > 
> > I have a hard time finding candidates with all 3 of the above. I have
> > met many that have a strong desire to learn but lack problem solving
> > skills. Now for a shared hosting company, this is fine.
> > Dedicated/Cloud infra. won’t work out.
> > 
> > jason
> 
> What are both of you meaning by "problem solving skills?" What,
> exactly, would the work of someone with "problem solving skills" look
> like?
> 
> How does "problem solving skills" differ from "thinking critically?"
> 
> I'm not asking out of idle curiosity, this is actually part of what I
> do.
> 
> 
> SteveT

I agree they probably mostly overlap, but when I think of problem solving I
think of skills specific to the position. For example I am moving
internally in Red Hat to a new position next month, and they will be
working on hiring someone to replace me in the support engineering
kernel team. Most likely in the interviews the person will be asked "A
customer's system has paniced and they've sent you a vmcore. What do
you do?"

Jerry