The Incident of the Fumbled Phone Screen

It was a technical screen led by an architect at a company that billed itself as Agile.  We started out with a general conversation about good OO practice and Agile development.

Then he asked me about HttpRequest.  I described its general behavior, but I had the feeling I wasn't satisfying him.  It had been close to two years since I worked with a Java app that used HttpRequest.

Later the recruiter who had set up the screen called to say the interviewer loved what I had to say about OO and Agile and admired my passion, but felt I didn't give enough detail on HttpRequest, so they were taking a pass.

Not so fast, Otaku

That last post was a little over the top, particularly the part about "good, true and beautiful".

Strike "good".

Although XP does have an ethical component in terms of how team members should relate to each other (and, to some extent, to the customer),  it doesn't deal with some wider issues.

You might never do a website for Kim Jong Il or Osama bin Laden.  That's an easy call.

What about Goldman Sachs or BP?