Talks: A Better Technical Interview & Hot Swapping Your Rails Front End

Rails at Scale is back for Summer! We're looking forward to two great talks this month:

A Better Technical Interview

Sam Jones, Test Double (http://testdouble.com/)

A Better Technical Interview will present ideas and techniques to make technical interviews more honest, and valuable to every candidate. You'll learn how to support a candidate and make technical interviews more realistic.

• Let's make a valuable interview by setting better expectations and creating better evaluation techniques.

• Let's make an honest interview by asking instead of assuming, and treating candidates like they'll be treated on the team.

• Let's make a collective interview by encouraging dialog and testing a candidate's to teach, learn, and work with teammates.

• Let's make a nice interview by ensuring the process is valuable to the candidate even if they're not yet ready to join the team.

Hot Swapping Your Rails Front End - A Betterment Rebranding Bonanza

Chris LoPresto, Betterment (https://www.betterment.com/)

“Everything currently looks like this, but we want it to look like that.” How we replaced our entire front end code base in secret in two months without killing one another.

How it works

Dinner and refreshments will be served! We leave 15m in between talks, and 30m at the end, for people to hang out and get to know each other. Come meet like-minded engineers who are facing, or have faced, that challenges you're facing today!