Category: Work
Developing effective interview questions
I read a blog post a few years ago that really influenced how I thought about the questions we ask in Happiness Engineer interviews. In the past our interview had centered on questions about a person’s background with WordPress along with their thoughts on what makes good customer support. These were often interesting conversations, but we weren’t getting as much of a sense of fit … Continue reading Developing effective interview questions
Units of Measure
I gave a flash talk about the metric system at the company’s annual grand meetup in October. My talk was mostly based on what I read in the book Whatever Happened to the Metric System, by John Bemelmans Marciano. I talked way too fast, to try to stay under four minutes. This was the fourth (annual) flash talk I’ve done, and my favorite! It was a fun … Continue reading Units of Measure
Acquiring a unicorn
A couple years ago I went to Vegas for a meetup with some coworkers. We worked on some projects, I triaged some bugs for their team, we saw a magic show together — the usual Vegas stuff. During our visit Mike Adams entered a new ticket into our internal tracking system noting the need for a baby unicorn to be developed on my behalf. As … Continue reading Acquiring a unicorn
Barcelona, the first few days
Pam wrote about Barcelona. And took pretty pictures of everything. pyjammy dot blog I have a lot to recap about Barcelona, so I’m going to break it up a bit. So of course I was supposed to arrive the afternoon of Monday the 5th, but as we all know, that didn’t happen. I finally arrived Tuesday afternoon, tired but excited. See how excited I am? … Continue reading Barcelona, the first few days
Deborah Beckett 