Ask HN: Help me find a conference talk on hiring/debugging mindset

by rbjorklin on 5/20/2025, 8:04:24 PM with 1 comments
At some point in the last 2 years I came across a conference talk, possibly on Youtube, where the speaker talked about hiring for mindsets rather than skills. If I recall correctly the speaker had some relatively well formulated questions for how to identify a person with a good debugging/troubleshooting mindset. I only vaguely remember the talk at this point so you'll have to excuse the fuzzy description.

  • by rbjorklin on 5/21/2025, 6:58:41 PM

    Just remembered some more details. The speaker covers the difference in applying something akin to the scientific method vs jumping to conclusions based on previous encounters of the same/similar issues.