So, you’ve just been promoted to the dark side of management but you don’t know how to lead your minions? Here are a few tips on keeping your plebeians in line: Make your Minions do the Dirty Work You shouldn’t worry yourself about work that’s underneath you, you get paid way to much. You’ve hired coder [...]

A while back I wrote about hiring for culture, not skill and I talked about how G Adventures has a culture fit interview which is the final go, no-go as to whether or not an employee is hired. Because of this post, one of the most popular search terms for this blog is “working at [...]

Last week I was talking with a group of friends about what their “perfect work day” would be. A number of scenarios were discussed when one person said “an entire day filled with meetings”. I began asking them questions about why they felt this way and what their meetings entailed to try to get an [...]

G Adventures doesn’t hire new people the way most companies do. They still have the normal interview process but what sets them apart from most companies is something called the “Culture Fit” interview. This is the last interview that a candidate goes through and it gives the last go, no-go whether or not a candidate [...]

Remember the two benefits of failure. First, if you do fail, you learn what doesn’t work; and second, the failure gives you the opportunity to try a new approach - Roger Von Oech Every developer has written a bug at least once in their careers. It’s almost a rite of passage to debug faulty code and [...]