Interview question to weed out modern scum?

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[–]trident765[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I think I thought of a good question.

Most members of my group more or less have a specific domain they are responsible. One person is responsible for software A, another for software B, etc. I think they like this model, because it gives them the opportunity to become subject matter experts in their own domain. But modern scum are absolutely revolted by this idea. They believe that instead everyone should have equal ownership of every software. So I can capitalize on this to get modern scum candidates to give an answer my group members won't like.

My question will be: "Do you prefer a model where each person is responsible for a particular software, or do you prefer a more collaborative model where everyone works together on every software". If he is a modern scum, he will say he likes the collaborative way better, and I think this will make my team mates dislike him.

[–]fschmidt 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

That sounds good. I didn't know that modern scum like collaborative programming, but it makes sense.

[–]trident765[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

When the modern scum took over my department at my last workplace, one of the first things the head scum did was he held a meeting where he said that from now on, for any project that anyone wants to work on that has an estimated timeframe of more than a half-day, we need to submit a written request to form a "team" for the project, which needs to be approved by him. In the meeting I asked if some "teams" might consist of only one person. Then one of the head scum's henchmen responded saying that his feeling would be no, because all work is better when done collaboratively. Then the head scum responded saying that he agrees with the henchman scum.

Then a month later, when they shut down my project, the main reason they gave was that my code was bad because it wasn't written collaboratively.