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Education

How I hire writers

Now with the goodness of Hacker News and reddit. Thank you everyone for doing a great job proof reading the post. Do checkout stackmonthly. A monthly roundup of best questions on stackoverflow.com. Good, creative writers are the backbone of our business. We try to hire and retain the best of them. Our interview process is aimed to make the process efficient and objective. This ensures that we do not have to waste time in our hiring process and get back to real work ASAP.

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Entrepreneurship

20 Qs with Puneet of Young India

Introduction Q. In your own words, who are you and what is your business? I am just a young creative mind, who feels that everyone can sell anything; but the only reason why everyone doesn’t become a businessman, is that they don’t have a product to sell. Since they don’t have anything to sell they sell somebody else’s product. All one needs is to be creative, a little passionate and definitely risk taking.

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Entrepreneurship

20 Qs with Sudhir of vfreshers.com

In the second interview, I get to interview Mr. Sudhir of vfreshers.com. He runs a website that provides info about fresher jobs. Introduction Q. In your own words, who are you and what is your business? A. I am an IT Professional having worked in Software industry in India & USA for 4-5 years. I have been working on Vfreshers.com along with my wife who is a law graduate and left her career to pursue my dream.

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Technology

One question to rule them all

Recently, while interviewing a person, I came up with an interesting question. That led to a series of discoveries about the interviewee. So I thought I would share it here. How does xUnit work? ** This one question offered insight into various aspects that I cared about. I steered the discussion until I got the answers to these question, without asking them explicitly. Do you know what unit testing is?

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Entrepreneurship

20 Qs with Mr. Kadiyala of fullhyd.com

In a planned series of interviews with Indian entrepreneurs, here is the first one. I got in touch with Kishore, an old friend and associate, and talked to him about his venture fullhyd.com. Introduction In your own words, who are you and what is your business? fullhyd.com is a local content and local search company, currently focusing on Hyderabad, India, and planning to scale to all Indian cities soon. We help people find comprehensive details about various businesses and services in their neighbourhood, and help them interact with the businesses, and with each other about the businesses.