{"id":480,"date":"2013-03-05T14:22:37","date_gmt":"2013-03-05T22:22:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2013.reno.wordcamp.org\/?p=480"},"modified":"2013-03-28T15:58:41","modified_gmt":"2013-03-28T22:58:41","slug":"reno-tahoe-wordcamp-speaker-jake-goldman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reno.wordcamp.org\/2013\/reno-tahoe-wordcamp-speaker-jake-goldman\/","title":{"rendered":"Speaker Feature: Jake Goldman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/2013.reno.wordcamp.org\/speakers\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-651\" alt=\"goldman_jake\" src=\"https:\/\/2013.reno.wordcamp.org\/files\/2013\/03\/goldman_jake1-150x150.png\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/reno.wordcamp.org\/2013\/files\/2013\/03\/goldman_jake1-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/reno.wordcamp.org\/2013\/files\/2013\/03\/goldman_jake1-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/reno.wordcamp.org\/2013\/files\/2013\/03\/goldman_jake1-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/reno.wordcamp.org\/2013\/files\/2013\/03\/goldman_jake1.png 1317w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nJake Goldman (<a title=\"Twitter - Jake Goldman\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jakemgold\" target=\"_blank\">@jakemgold<\/a>) of Sacramento, CA will be presenting in the Designer\/Developer track of the 2013 Reno-Tahoe WordCamp. His session, titled\u00a0<em><strong>10 Developer Interview Que<\/strong><strong>stions (and the<\/strong><strong> answers)<\/strong><\/em>, will discuss the process that Jake has used in hiring developers to work with his website design agency, <a href=\"http:\/\/10up.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">10up<\/a>.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I have personally hired more than 25 WordPress developers over the last few years, have considered over 100 and interviewed more than 60.<\/p>\n<p>There are a about 20 questions I ask most serious candidates, from philosophical &#8211; &#8220;Tell me about something that really frustrates you about WordPress right now&#8221;- to big picture technical &#8211; &#8220;Tell me about the two fundamental hook types in WordPress, and the difference between them&#8221; to granular &#8211; &#8220;What&#8217;s the best way to prevent posts in a specific category from showing up in the blog home?&#8221; Sometimes there&#8217;s more than one right answer, sometimes there&#8217;s really one right answer. There are also some *really* bad answers.<\/p>\n<p>This talk is a cheat sheet for 10 of the most important questions I ask.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Jake has taught WordPress Plugin Development at Boston University and has made presentations at events such as:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Reno-Tahoe\u00a0WordCamp 2012<\/li>\n<li>Los Angeles\u00a0WordCamp 2012<\/li>\n<li>Orlando\u00a0WordCamp 2011<\/li>\n<li>Miami\u00a0WordCamp 2010 &amp; 2012<\/li>\n<li>Chicago\u00a0WordCamp 2010 &amp; 2011<\/li>\n<li>Boston\u00a0WordCamp 2010, 2011 &amp; 2012<\/li>\n<li>NYC\u00a0WordCamp 2009 &amp; 2012<\/li>\n<li>Phoenix\u00a0WordCamp 2012 &amp; 2013<\/li>\n<li>Albuquerque\u00a0WordCamp 2012<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Please leave us a comment if you have any questions you would like to have answered in Jake&#8217;s presentation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jake Goldman (@jakemgold) of Sacramento, CA will be presenting in the Designer\/Developer track of the 2013 Reno-Tahoe WordCamp. His session, titled\u00a010 Developer Interview Questions (and the answers), will discuss the process that Jake has used in hiring developers to work &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/reno.wordcamp.org\/2013\/reno-tahoe-wordcamp-speaker-jake-goldman\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Speaker Feature: Jake Goldman<\/span>  <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11666183,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[116139,116624,5466,116524,25,14],"class_list":["post-480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-10up","tag-interview","tag-jake-goldman","tag-web-developer","tag-wordcamp","tag-wordpress"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3b5ea-7K","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reno.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reno.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reno.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reno.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11666183"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reno.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=480"}],"version-history":[{"count":36,"href":"https:\/\/reno.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1532,"href":"https:\/\/reno.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480\/revisions\/1532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reno.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reno.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reno.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}